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S AMUSEMENT PAGEWere The Happy Days!Ton didn’t know that Mabel Normand was n ''perfect thirty-six.” did you? Maliel was onro a mmlrl, and a model fine, at that. If you don't bdleve us. look for yourself at the little insert right under Mabel's new Gainsborough hat.Earned 50c An Hour.”So Ma'bel Normand was rhosen by PlccIrilU tor his model. In those days Miss Normar.d was earning but 50 cents an hour, and. while she wa3 very popular and conFclejUiou* na a model, was not used as often as others whono figures wore more of the ideal. She had come over from Staten Island to seek a career among the studios, and was struggling hard to | keeip serviceable shoes on her feet and achieve three meals a clay with anyihlng like regularity. Through all her struggles she was bright and cheerful, full of fun, and always prompt and willing to work long hours if an artist was hurried.•'Where. In modelling Lady Constance Richardson, Prince Troubct-skoy wished to avoid any suggestion of flesli Picclrllli, in doing ‘Rain’ wish, ed to suggest It frankly—almost to exaggerate it. Mabel Normond's body was done In the sketching clay into that of a siren, a beautifully rounded figure that seemed t’o glow' with life and vivacity. She has Spanish blood, and her entire physical personality glows with Latin warmth of impulse and •motion.“But when the figure was completed Pieoirllli was not satisfied. lie had fixed an impression of voluptuousness—such as he believed a rain storm created—yet the spiritual, the inner expression of aioblo thought and purpose seemed to be lacking. The face he had modelled seemed too merry. He sent for me, and, destroying the clay sketch of the head and face. and. made a sketch of my face. Thus his complete*! state was made of two models—Miss Normand for the body, me for the face. He ■professed to find in my features that which he wanted to elevate and purify his statue. When I took the pose he wished he asked me to think of myself as being in a rnln storm, snil-suggostod tears to me, yet held fast by the. Inexplicable spell which therain threw about me. My Interpretation of ih:s command is what Is pictured in Plcclrillis statue.Artist's Work a Success. **The completed work won much favorable comment at San Francisco. The artist's conception was widely discussed, and his interpretation of rair, os a siren in body, but of noble ssciul was considered daring but correct.*T do not mean to be understood that Alisa A’ormar.d was unable to portray to nrt‘~ts the nobler character which the real artists always wantto put Ino thoir works. Soma sculptors found In her face, in the droop of her eyelids or the curves of her mouth features which were especially attractive to them. Iler chief asset us a model was her ability to catch •lie inood of the artist and translate it for hlmf, but it had to be a merry mood. Miss Normand could only •pouf when she should be sad and thoughtful. Her ‘pout* on the movie screen has earned her a. million dollars or so; as a model it cancelled many posing engagements for her.”Miss Normand has recently left the Goldwyn banner to go back to her first love. the. Senneit people. She will shortly please her public with another film feature that promises to!.l.rnl *• VrinUfrtf »» *resathitheruiex]isnalo\Tincaicajto• Tbeliarival •'Mickey/hv lt«a rn.ri’HQ ihc/MmSA ItNOW T*T, \
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Bridgeport Times
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Mar 17, 1921
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Milwaukee P.
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