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FREE as air is the Twentieth Century woman, no longer earthbound, but with all the sky for her playground. And typical of young moderns is Ginger Rogers, now legally free from Lew Ayres after four long years of separation. Like others of her generation — whether for sheer love of adventure, or for love itself — Ginger has taken to the air! More fortunate than most, however, she has for her almost inseparable companion one of the world's finest aviators, Howard Hughes. And what does a first-magnitude star wear, as partner of an internationally famous millionaire flyer, on a quick plane hop for lunch many, many miles away or a lazier trip through the wine-clear atmosphere above the California valleys? New as this cloud-life is, fashion has not had time to catch up and dictate wardrobe demands. Yet airplanes have progressed so far toward comfort and ease that flying femininity has already discarded the heavy wool and leather costumes of pioneer days, in favor of the practical slack suit. That's why noted portrait painter Neysa McMein pictures Ginger in grey gabardine, as loose and unconfining and light of weight as her new freedom, with a one-button cardigan jacket and a crimson ascot as vivid as the color of love itself! Imagination carries the printed page a step further and we see Ginger turn expectantly toward the incoming plane, her new emerald with its flashing baguette diamonds winking like a prophecy from her engagement finger — for this is Twentieth Century courtship, the modern prelude to marriage. Today, the poetic prophecy has come true and love has wings!
As Ginger Rogers takes flight from loneliness toward romance, Neysa McMein— one of our most famous women artists — offers her conception of Howard Hughes' fascinating new flying companion