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Julian Eltinge

Rona (55-L-2)

Whenever I appear behind the footlights, either as a fascinating widow or as any other kind of woman, inter-

viewers and women

want to know" invari-

who "just ably ask me

three questions.

The first, "How

actually know about

you wear?"

The

you leave

to an ex-

or design

self?"

The third, the tant, "How do you sical appearance of

Usually I avoid these subjects, be- would take too much into these angles of with every questioner. them, because if my could see with what throw my "creations" every performance and

life they would realize sufficiently punished such clothes without

much do you

the gowns

second, "Do

their selection

pert modiste

them your-

least impor- gain the phy-

a woman?"

talking on cause it time to go

my occupation Rather I avoid interrogators pleasure I

at the end of

return to man that I was

for wearing

the addition-

al ordeal of telling how I was able to wear them. You can see, then, that it is not with a purely unselfish motive

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