Show MANIKIN TELLS OF HER PARIS LIFE famous beauty says all Is not frills paris TI tie e private life of a paris manikin bedecked with diamonds and furred tie with sable and ermine to the casual and superficial observer often Is a couple of cold sausages and a cupful of black coffee to the person who takes tales the trouble to investigate tey oJ the thick piled carpets and vastal estai Lan chandeliers dellers of the style salons ep enchantress of the des ert british beauty with eyes the color of the river nile and jet black tresses from the land of the tambourines an and d troubadours has given the inside stoia of her life as the world s most tul ful manikin her real name first was vera ashby before her inari tage to a scientist a professor of mental diseases doctor I 1 kL he ile later for love of her shot himself in his laboratory in swit aerland after a year of honeymoon happiness horror and worse than death existence during which his own mind became deranged fearing that in his moments of delirium he might harm his beautiful bride he took tool his own life that she might be free when this british beauty whom ev elyone accuses of being every known nationality except her own first became a manikin she was a long lean lanky girl in her teens walking the streets for a job her father had failed in business she had a friend who was working at lucile s in lon don the girl told her to try out tor for a manikins job that was open I 1 me be a fashion manikin she replied why you know I 1 couldn t rin too skinny and I 1 in not beautiful I 1 she finished wistfully the friend in aisted elsted and the next day she was on the stage of lady duff gordon e salon with edward molyneux Mo lyneus now of paris parts fame as her audience they draped an oriental gown over me she said a gorgeous piece of fabric designed by molyneux the very touch of it thrilled me beyond words I 1 heard him shout through the emptiness of the room acal do something with yourself move around interpret my dress be some somebody bodyl the keen observer of inborn grace and refinement knew that he had made a find his ills curt very well you will do was uttered even more gruffly to hide his exultation soon after that continued the now famous manikin I 1 was sent to cuelles paris house with molyneux A month later when he opened up his own place I 1 went with him because I 1 always felt the interpretation of the clothes I 1 wore people soon began to write and talk about me and before I 1 knew what was happening I 1 became famous receiving proposals from love sick office boys and million aires alike both by mall mail and in person I 1 it was love at first sight on the part of my first husband and he ex arted a spell over me which I 1 was powerless to break even with my own wish not to marry him at first I 1 used to stay up until 3 and 4 aa a in going to cabarets and shows but when I 1 couldn t pay the price I 1 found was expected my invitations became fewer and f fewer ewer I 1 still lived in one room in a little hotel and even after my spectacular marriage to doctor Papa dald his trag ie ic death and my return to work with molyneux I 1 never could stand to pre tend in my private life the life I 1 only acted during the day in 1030 became the brid of an artist whom she saved from sul cide by sending him a little bouquet of violets intuitively and at the apsy ch moment when be he had the pistol pointed at his temple A I 1 atle note pinned to the flowers said I 1 am your friend you never need feel lonely marcel poncin could not ask the gorgeous girl to marry him because he be was destitute the enchantress of the desert had to put words in his mouth and then set action to the words they were wed amid entrust aftic in the latin quarter of the left bank and now she con eluded I 1 have gone back to work not as a manikin this time but as a sales woman this Is a real love match and while we have no money we hae hale each other |