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A California Scandinavian
the famous racing driver.
"We were going down the county road," she went on, as„ we left her car and walked slowly toward the house, "at a considerable rate of speed with a very good driver at the wheel. Suddenly Barney bent over and said to him, 'Slow down a little/ then to me, 'I get speed enough on the racetrack ; twentyfive miles an hour is plenty fast enough for me on the road !'
"Think of a remark like that," wonderingly, "coming from Barney Oldfield !"
But in this, her restlessness and her love of speed, the influence of the Hansen name on her character seems to end. She is, for the most part, Juanita, the child of luxury.
She dresses in soft silks, but in order that her move
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For the most part Juanita is a child of luxury. She dresses in soft silks and uses a haunting, rich perfume which in itself suggests luxury
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^HERE must be something in a name, Shakespeare to the contrary notwithstanding.
Every one knows wild Jacks, dignified Johns, prim Priscillas, open-hearted Franks and flourishing Florences. And it always seems
to be the first name which exerts the psychological influence. Take, for instance, Juanita Hansen. She is of DanishSwedish descent, was born in Portland, Oregon, came to California when she was eight years old and has lived in Los Angeles ever since. She has never even visited New York. By all the rules of ancestry and environment, she should be an out-of-doors girl. And, to some extent, she is.
"I'll never get speed enough, never!" she said. (We were shooting up one of the highest hills in Los Angeles with the ease and seeming velocity of a bullet.) I remarked, with a sigh of content, that I didn't think I could either, but I had heard that it could happen
"That's funny," (as she turned skillfully into the narrow way leading into her garage), "Barney Oldfield told me the same thing."
It seems that she was one of a party with "Daredevil" Barney Oldfield,
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