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Were The Happy Days!You didn't know that Mabel .VomiamI wns n ''perfect thlrty-slx. did you? Maliel was once a model, and a model one, at that. If you don't believe us, look for yourself nt the lllllc insert right under Mabel's new Gainsborough hat.Earned 50c An Hour.“So Mabel Xormand was rhoscn by PlecirilU for his model. In those days Miss Normar.d was earning but 50 cents an hour, and, while she was very popular and conscientious as a model, was not used as often as others whose figures were mnre of the Ideal. She had come over from Staten Island to seek a career among the studios, and was struggling hard to I keep serviceable shoes on her feet and achieve three meals a day with anything 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 Kichardson, Prince Troubct-skoy wished to avoid any suggestion of flesli Plcclrilll, in doing Ttain’ 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 Piooirilli was not satisfied. lie had fixed an Impression of voluptuousness—such as he believed a rain storm created—yet the spiritual, the inner expression otf stable thought and purpose seemed to be lacking. The face ho had modelled seemed too merry. He sent for me, and, destroying the clay sketch of the head and face. and. inado a sketch of my face. Thus his completed state was made of two models—Mbs Normand tor 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 bedng in a rain storm, aad-dened by its damp caress because Itsuggested tears to me. yet held fast by the Inexplicable spell which therain throw about me. My interpretation of th:s command is what Is pictured in Ficcirttli's 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 rain as a siren in body, but of nobleureck“I do not mean to be understood that Miss .N’ormar.d was unable to portray to art lets the nobler character which the real artists always wantto put ino their works. Some, sculptors found In her face, in the droop of her eyelids or the curves of her mouth features which were especially attractive to thorn. Her chief asset as a model was her ability to catch the mood of the artist and translate it tfor hlnif, 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. Sennett people. She •**111 shortly please her public with another film fcalure that promises to rival “.Mickey.NOW PT/Tlv. Fnfl.r.illl
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Bridgeport Times
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Mar 17, 1921
Page 4
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Milwaukee P.
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