The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-21
BEGAN GAY
LIFE AS
MODEL.

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CONTINUED from First Page.l
her life 70 interest Broadway. She
was Anna keenan,, . very pretty
Irish Oiri. whose parents had both
been born in the old country and
who, with her two brothers and
two sisters, all older than she,
had been brought up In West Nine.
: ty-ninth street, between Amster.
dam and Columbus avenues.
She went to the Holy Name
School around the corner in Nine
ty-eeventh street.. and was SO lit.
tie distinguished from the hum
dreds Of other girls who attended
classes there no one ct the school
remembers there ever was such q
pupil.
Ia 1912, when she was eighteen.
she was married to Eugene Irving
Opel, q chauffeur, who was
twenty-six and lived at 3099 Broad.
way. The ceremony was performed
ut, the Holy Name Church, and
NflN0 witnesses were Oppell's broth
er and Annals sister Helen. They
set up housekeeping - $50 West
One Hundsed and. First street.
Certainly nothing so far In her pro,
safe story would interest Broad.
Even the, quarrels that soon be,
gan would have meant nothing to
those with whom the Dorothy King
Of later years was to become iden.
titled. 10 them domestic infe,
li,,af&S e MaA r&..Nf psN,, ass.s,t
months the oppeliS lived together
before Opel left her.
From their violent auaxrels .
LISTING enMitg was Nngendered
that led Dorothy on tho few pc.
cAsjOns when slIo did mention her
husband e "a 10 refer 70 him a.
shat dirty bumn.1
The final break came over an.
other man. for once. Dorothy, in
the last stages Of an. alI-night lie.
uof party, forgot her natural eau.
ton enough to say her husband
had claimed he caught me cheat
ing."
Becomes D Model.
Whatever the reason, Opel
went out Of the one Hundred ana
First street flat and out Of her
life. Once. III 1913, she had him
brought up In the court OF dognes-
tic relations for non-support. but
he was able to show that she had
forfeited her rights. That was the
last time their paths crossed.
Three or four more yeare were 70
elapse before BrCadWav knew Dor.
0thy King. lady Of the vening.
Anna KeenaE. dropping the hated
name Of Dppeli, went back to her
mothers home. Occasional Employ
ment as q model Tor suits and
gowns did nothing TO bring her
from obscurity. One OF the places
she worked was Roth Costumes,
inc, 80 East Thirty.third street.
Az IT the school, no one Their
now remembers much about her.
Models come and 90 rapidly.
They must have good looks and
good figures TO- hold the Jobs at ali.
Anna Tor Dorothy. 90 she was BE-.
ginning to call heroelO was only
one among hundreds % pretty girls
who could use their looks to make
dresses attractive to buyers.
Il 10 possible II was with some
Of those buyers before whom she
she gOt the first gIimpsea OF the
9r~S~Nep@S9
became the most important thing
&n her existence.
Certain e l. she had Travelled
some distance on the provertlal
primrose path when an accident
changed her from Just q "gOOd,
time grille" 70 OgA6 Of RrOadway's
best known ;'heaVy sugar babies"
A heavy sugar baby for The
benefit d those whose world q
not bounded BY FOFty-secOnd street.
Fifth avenue, Fifty.seventh street,
and Eighth avenue. ls q girl who
has mastered the art Of separating
men from large quantities. az
auRar. namely, money or things
that = WIN buy.
Papa, Daddy" ana ''sweetle."
The heavy sugar baby's" men
friends. according to the idion Of
Broadway's haIfywofld, are divided
into three claases-the papa, the
daddy and the "sweetie." The,
''pePa" ID an elderly admlrer with
sugar lots Of sugar. The DADDY"
has just rs much, but is younger.
The "Sweetie" h not 90 strong on
sugar, but very strong on love
or what passes for q In the world
bounded above. Once In a blue
moon a giFI is lucky enough to
find that perfect combination, the