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Copenhagen Make— Overnight Dazzle the Queen of Sheba
On the smaller, modern baubles, that can be rented over and over again, he uses sterling" silver. And on every piece, great or small, he uses the utmost care and all the skill taught him in his years of apprenticeship in Copenhagen. He commenced to learn the craft when he was fourteen.
And those hammered silver and gold pieces that Bebe Daniels wore in "She's a Sheik." Did you think they were sent from Arabia by a desert admirer ? Willy did those, too, working fourteen hours a day, Gussie by his side. Gussie is Willy's sole staff.
Gussie was Gussie Petersen. Willy was Willy Fagerstam. And when they married in Denmark, they became Mr. and Mrs. Willy Petersen-Fagerstam. It must be an old Danish custom.
Florence Vidor, the Countess Anstcrmann of "The Patriot," the newest Jannings picture, wears a gorgeous array of Russian jewels, all made by Willy.
Crown Jewels While You Wait
There is not a period in gem history that he does not know. An intense desire for that
knowledge led him to the museums of Scandinavi
at Stockholm and Christiania. Ravag
ing them of their information, he
descended upon the museums
of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and
returned to Copenhagen
freighted with gem data. He can re-create the
breastplates that Cleopatra wore when she
first shook hands with
Mark Antony. The
sapphires that Napoleon favored are
mounted in faithful
reproduction by Willy.
Russian crown jewels,
the Kohinoor as it
was when presented
to Queen Victoria,
the regal gems of
Louis XIV, all come
from his nimble fingers. Pola Negri has not
made a picture for four
years that has not been
jeweled by Willy.
sort o a, thos
Florence Vidor's brilliant necklace and earrings are copies of Imperial Russian jewels
Vera Voronina, left, an<
Esther Ralston, above,
bedecked in diamonds of
the purest paste
The brilliant gems of Greta Garbo's "Love," f nee "Anna Karenina," were supplied by Willy,
e He picked up a brace of crystal earrings, delicately
fashioned. A stray sunbeam turned them into iridescent raindrops. They looked like Cartier or Tiffany.
"It took me only an hour to make them. The materials cost about two dollars. And they look like the real thing." Yeh, and so did that diamond ring the hosiery drummer gave me.
The imitation Kohinoors, Excelsiors and Cul
linans, along with paste rubies, emeralds and
pseudo-precious stones he orders by the gross
from Czecho-Slovakia. Perfect reproductions
of famous stones, correct to minute defects.
errors in cutting, tiny cracks, are supplied.
Other materials he gets locally. But the
talent, the ingenuity, is Willy's.
His interest now is in the cubes and angles
of modernistic jewelry. But it cannot last,
this bizarre craze. It is only a passing fancy.
American women have too much money to
spend on trinkets and this will meet the mood
of the moment.
"In Europe they do not have so much money to spend on jewelry. One set of jewels lasts a lifetime. We take greater care in making them. Much carving and work we put into it. The settings are intricately done. But here it is the jewel that counts. The mounting means practically nothing.
This is true of the more conservative European. Hommel (Continued on page 110)
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