, 1934-12-06
Living Models
AT ManautOu's
Win Much Praise
Brownsville Dealers
Display Wind o
Commented On

The window display contest In
which so many Brownsville mer-
chants took part Monday night has
ended, but the originality and var
iety with which the displays we're
carried out continue TO be the sub
iect Of admiring comment.
Z. M~anautou. Inc, put on a dis
play that carried artistic clever
ness 10 a fine point, with each win
dow containing living models, and
depicting a characteristic scene.
The main point OF interest was the
central window within the arcade
in which Miss PoSy Kissler posed as
a bride in all her wedding finery
OF lustrous wedding gown, veil and
train, against a background draped
in white satin and trailing fern.
Miss Kissler was attended by TWO
little girls. Margie Sarran and Irene
Gottlieb. one in pink and the 9TH
er in blue. One held a brides pray
er book and her gloves while the
other held the ends OF the long
train 10 the wedding dress.
Another window Of particular m
terest IN the arcade depicted three
girls in evening gowns In . setting
suggestive Of a richly furnlshed
home. Models were Misses Enri-
quota Queto, Esperanza Samano and
Mary Helen Marion.
The third window In the arcade
showed a couple apparently Just
leaving 10 fulfill a dinner and dane
ing engagement, for the man was
in tuxedo with hat and cane. and
the lady was in dinner dress with
A small evening turban, and al
accessories to match. Models we're
Charley Martinez and Miss Jennie
B. Armstrong.
Miss Beatrice Pardue in coat and
hat occupied one Of the small front
windows. while another was occup-
led BY Miss Margarita Soils In
street frock with ell accessories 70
match. The corner window IN front
was a boudoir scene with a small
dlvan. a dressing table with appro-
pirate fittings and the model Miss
Jackie Macdonald, in paiamaS and
neFligee.
In one OF the side windows Fran
els Kowalski, IN a business suit re-
clined in an easy chair after MS
labors Of packing for there was an
open wardrobe trunk, and mems
clothes and personal belongings
about the window.
A gay doll scene was portrayed
IN a next window against a mod
ernistic background, with a minia-
ture medieval castle providing 2
base upon and around which almost
100 dolls were placed.
An outdoor scene in which sew
eral little boys in wash suits play
ed on the lawn on bicycles and
with TOYS Of various sorts was shown
IN another window with John Simo
Jr.. Baby Funk. Hector Baldas, OF
to Baldas and Horatio Paredss 81
models.
In a background OF draped blan-
kets a small Indian sat near q
campfire. The Indian was Anselmc
Gomez.
The last window portrayed q
cowboy on the prairie with a sad
die on a blanket In one corner and
the cowboy himself resplendent IN
chaps. Stetson hat, and gun and
leather Jacket.
All during the evening hundreds
OF persons damned the sidewalk al
Manautous, admiring the unique
displays and the dignified, beauti-
full and charming living models.
Mr.. Manautou later received mum
erous telephone calls Of congra-
tulation, as well as personal visits
in the same view.
The Manautou system OF display
windows Is probably one OF the mos
elaborate in South Texas. They LEND
themselves unusually well 70 dis
] PLAYS such as that worked out Mon
day night under the supervision OF
Mr.. Manautou.
The windows u the full length
Of the l20-foot building on the l2th
street side. and for a width OF fifty
feet on washington street. with
space for doors. In addition there
are all-glaSs cabinet type display
: in the front veStibule.