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IMiotogrAphs l>y Edward Thayer Monroe
Juanita Hansen has a sort of hovering solicitude which one might not expect, perhaps, of her somewhat sensational appearance. She has a super-ability to wear clothes startlingly — at the same time this does not mitigate the kind heart beneath the latest Lucile model
OF course, I knew that Juanita Hansen had had an apartment or a bungalow or something or other in California with Mary Thurman ; that she had been one of the famous Mack Sennett bathing girls and that she had rather recently changed her line, as it were. I knew that she was but newly arrived in New York ; that she was effectively blonde and
that she was occupying Texas Guinan's apartment in the precincts of the village' known as Greenwich. This last I knew with a beautiful definiteness, because she had cozily invited me to dinner, and I always a.scertain dinner addresses ... I am an interviewer.
These facts, above related, were the only facts in my possession. I had heard, tho, come to think of it, that ■iome glib soul had observed that Texas Guinan's apartment resembled the large set in "Intolerance," and, having seen Miss Hansen photographically, I anticipated an — well, graphic evening. I got it.
I was greeted by a vision, nothing else, nothing less, with hair blonde and bobbed, in Turkish costume of an extreme effectiveness, even to the bound ankles.
"1 always," scid Miss Hansen, "wear this thing around the house. It is a habit with me. Just before I left California, tho, I was throwing away a lot of things and was about to include this in the lot, when Texas Guinan came
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in and advised me to keep it. 'You'll need it,' she told me, 'in my apartment.' I find that I do. It, sort of fits in."
Miss Hansen was hospitable plus over a charming dinner-table containing not merely charm but food, substantially speaking as well . . . delectalile and exceedingly gooey chocolate cake inclusive.
Juanita occupied a tall and carven chair of somber hue and looked startling . . . like a glad sort of picture, framed.
.'^he has a .sort of hovering solicitude which one might not expect, perhaps, of her somewhat sensational appearance. One knows, however, that the sensational appearance, the super-ability to wear clothes startlingly, does not mitigate the kind heart beneath the Luciles. if they be Luciles.
There is an air about her at once of ministration and childlike pleasure.
She had never been in New York before, which I , did not know. It is, I suppose, always .something of a shock to a born and bred New Yorker to encounter a person who has never before so much as seen the famous
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