Evening star., 1948-12-14
Capital Careers

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only work a couple Of hours q day,
thus have time in plenty for home
and husband. Yet you have ample
opportunity to wear extravagant|
clothes, and are out enough to keep
up with what's going on in the
world.
That's just the way it is with
Marjabelle and with most other
models. The majority Of 'em are
not only married, but have children.
And when they gather in the dress
ing room or over lunch it's not the
latest Dior they are discussing but
the latest darling baby cute saying
or a new recipe.
Marjabelle came here from Coun-
Gil Bluffs, out of the University of
Iowa. She was married here be-
cause the United States government
Is so stuffy about its annual leave
rules. Y'see, the groom-to-be had
just gone to work for the govern
ment-he's an electrical engineer att
the Naval Research Laboratory-|
and of course had no time coming
to him so he couldn't 60 to Maria
belle. Hence the wedding here,
away from home and family.
There's story in the current
American magazine about gal who
became a model so she could afford
a deep freeze. Marjabelle knows
one who used her first earnings to
purchase copper pots and kitchen
curtains. Frivolous-by-c comparison,
she frittered away her first check
on a painting of The Dancer" for
which she had had a long standing
passion.
However, just like the girl in the
story, MarSabelle is a homebody.
She loves to cook-anything. And
probably not even the offer of a
ringside table at the best night spot
In town could drag the Youngs away
from their television set.
Marjabelle does most of her non
modelling at home, too. A lot Of the
detail work contracting other models,
arranging for costumes, fittings,
etc., for the Fashion Fair can be
done via telephone. She's got a
little black book Of names and num-
bers and more intimate figures on
fggers that would be the delight of
every wolf in Washington!
Probably the highest honor that
can be bestowed upon a fashion
model is to be chosen to introduce
some new style. Sort of croix de
couturfer. Well, it has come to
Marjabelle. She it was who was
chosen last week to introduce the
"rojgette," an enhancing new gim-
mick made of anything from silk to
sable, which Is positively guaran-
teed to transform your most drab
outfit into the creation Of the year.
And not only to introduce the
"rojgette," at the Fashion Fair, but
to be the exclusive model for 1t in
fashion shows, advertisements, on
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for that big crimson -bordered ma
tional picture magazine.
Naturally, Marjabelle is tremen-
dously excited over all this. Yet to
say she is, sounds as though shes
some fiighty young thing swayed
by surface frivolities. Taint 50.
Except that sometimes it pays
more and has q certain air Of CLAM
our. modelling is a job just like any
other. And Marjabelle would never
let it interfere with her real career
as wife and someday a mother.
It's just, as she explains herself in
her rapid-fire way Of talking, that
she's getting all her furining around
out of the way now because when
she does become q mother, that is
going tobe q full-time career. Any
thing less, she feels, would be
equally unfair to herself and to her
children.
Told you she was smart.