Art Deco Glamour Gallery

Nothing English about her except her looks. Mlle Gregoritz, who has attained

Nothing English about her except her looks.
Mlle Gregoritz, who has attained considerable notoriety in Vienna, by reason of a novel competition organised by a popular weekly journal, which published the portraits of 12 girls of a different countries, readers having to write against each other what they believed to be the nationality of the individual shown. A large money prize was offered for 100 per cent correct solution but no one guessd correctly owing to the fact that more than 80 per cent of the voters wrote English against the portrait of Mlle Gregoritz who, in point of fact is a pretty Viennese.
19 March 1927

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Portrait as reward. Mme Costes, wife of the distinguished French airman who had

Portrait as reward.
Mme Costes, wife of the distinguished French airman who had two charming photographs specially made on the day that her husband completed his record flight, and sent them to him by French liner.
25 September 1930

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Faith in her own invention causes concussion of the brain. Mme Auguste Hallmann

Faith in her own invention causes concussion of the brain.
Mme Auguste Hallmann who invented a hunting hat fitted with a pneumatic cushion, which she believed would banish all risk attending a toss. During a exhibition she put her horse to a high wall and then deliberately fell onto her head, with disastrous results to herself.
19 June 1926

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