Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
SPRING REAL BOON
TO DRESS MODELS
Mannequins Enjoy Splendid
Season, With Shows Aided
by BaImy Weather.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June f.-Spring is
hailed as a glorious season by different
people for a great variety of reasons.
FOR that regiment of girls who earn
- aspire 70 earn, their livings by the
simple expedient of wearing stylish
clothes, Spring is a real boon.
The mannequins, those smartly turn
ed-out women who parade before the
clientele of salons and style shows, are
enjoyfaK q splendid season. Numerous
shows, balmy Spring weather and a
lively competition are making their
work profitable.
Frequent sittings before the camera
add to the income of the lucky few
who can secure those assignments.
Many Seek Employment.
Wearing pretty clothes is strong
lure and every day finds dozens of girls
storming the establishments which en-
ploy mannequins. Only the New YORK
theater, perhaps, has wider selection
of pretty girls.
One house, which uses mannequins
extensively, has a list of 600 possibili-
ties from which to choose. That 600
does not include the hundreds wro were
ranked as unsuitable.
Physical proportion and size are the
two great stumbling blocks in the path
of the aspiring mannequin. Require
mentS differ among the various houses
In some of them all mannequins must
be able to wear the same garments. In
others a certain type is chosen and
selection of suitable gowns Is made up
Ability to wear the seasons creations
gracefully and to display their lines to
the fullest advantage is the funda-
mental prerequisite. "Photographing
we'll" Is, of course. the quality that
leads to the aristocracy of the profess
sion-the models commissioned to pose
for style pictures.
Leaders Are Well Paid.
Admission to this inner circle is most
difficult to attain, but is worth waiting
for. as the leaders earn in excess OF
$3.50 weekly. Even in the lower grades
the pay is better than that of stenog-
raphers and the work is less fatigulng
Visions of New York mannequinS tend
chiefly to the musical shows and the
legitimate stage. Joan Clement, Marion
Moorehouse, Doris Freeman and Nancy
James are a few who have achieved
Broadway shows, but continue to DEM
onstrate how modish clothes should be
worn The movies rarely are either the
goal or the accomplishment in TINS little
world of beauty.
Dreams of rich marriages via the
clothes model route sometimes come
true, but not so often as might be be-
lieved. There have been some, the peo-
pie who deal much with mannequlns
tell YOU. but they have difficulty re-
membering names and dates.
For the mannequins it is business.
Marjorie Willis. Margaret Shea. Peggy
Wehman, Dorothy Smart, Lee Sherman,
Janet Sailing, Sally Grant, Peggy Fish,
Dorothy Flood and the others in that
select group.
Not a few find that not even faithful
exercising and dieting can keep their
figures within the strict requirements
of their jobs. They fall out of the pro-
cession.
Temperament, those who know them
saw. is abundant. A certain midtown
street is the deadline, and many Of the
best models will not work farther down
town. Poses in undertakings and shoe
and hosiery assignments are scorned.