Judge — March 26, 1927 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Dear Judgette: Truly, I feel like sixteen again and writing to my favorite movie star. I've just reached the voting age, been mar ried six months and love good looking clothes, but cannot swing the “ultra” stores when I occa sionally get to New York. You see I married for “love” and we are trying to swing a roadster and an oceasional good time. I'm never in the big town long enough to look around for the inexpensive shops so you would be doing the world a great service if you could put us wise to some of them. Especially for shoes and felt hats d sheer stockings. Please don’t disappoint us, Judgette! — Just Dot... . This makes two of us, Dot! I’ve been chasing that same rainbow for ages but since you've written I'll chase a little harder. T'll tell you a secret... the inex pensive shops are expensi the expensive and exorbitant. We girls have our troubles! anyway I'll keep my w open, and. incidentally here's’ a great opportunity for the High Heelers in Manhattan to aid the cause ! ones her Having received sundry knocks anent this column it ought to be permissible once in a while to print a “boost”. “Yes, Mam! There are ladies in the house! I have been intending to write you for some time to compliment you on your column but just neglected to do so. The hypocritical letter ved from O. W. Phillips caused this effusion. Right you are, Judgette, that’s just like a man! If your column is meant for the ladies, and I believe it is, continue, as Of cou interested in what they ing on Fifth Ave.! Possib! articles aren’t one bit sn you recei Main St., but they do sound that So, on with the style show. ; nd let the funny sounding pl they aren't pleased!” (Dayton, Ohio) Curly! rls in those object. if Curly . thank you, oS And so I'll tell you about some cute calf-skin bags in pastel shades I saw on the well known avenue just the other day they are to be worn with summer frocks and are lovely. we As this is the Art number I might also mention a cute foun tain pen that was presented to me evidently because Iam business woman . now a .. the top of the pen is a lipstick! ... quaint idea! oS The Six Best Steppers “Bird’s-Eye View” (no show) “I Love the Moonlight” (no show) “Ki hachu” (Yours Truly) “Somebody Else” (Yours Truly) “Maybe” (Oh, Kay) “Romance” (Desert Song) The Quest of the Model It was recess at the art school and the bearded professor who had been called upon to tell a story to the students, lit his meerschaum pipe and spoke: “Pierre Dumas Valjean, the idol of the Latin quarter, the genius beneath whose deft fingers bits of magically formed themselves into beautiful shapes, sat in his sobbed... . clay garret studio and ‘Twenty-two miles away from his dwelling, far from the blare and confusion of Paris, SHE—the one SHE in the world most neces- sary to him—placidly lived her uneventful life, little realizing what great awaited her. Though they knew it not, fate was to bring them together—but I digress. Pierre had been making splen- did progress with his latest work when suddenly his fingers grew clumsy and the fitful flame of creative fire left his being. “If I could only find the type,” moaned Pierre, “if I could only find the right model all would be well.” Gradually he ceased work : together and a bit of rag ws hung over his unfinished creation, not unlike a premature funeral shroud. Word went through the little restaurants on the Mont- martre that Pierre’s genius had died. And through it all he cease- lessly searched everywhere for the type. The right type! A model (Continued on page 31) fame HINT TO ART INSTITUTE DIRECTORS— Hang pictures four in a line and the public may take ’em for comic strips. comicbooks.com