THE CAMERA COMES ACROSS
Follette, Isabel Bacon La
A Room Of Our Own The Camera Comes Across By ISABEL BACON LA FOLLETTE GREETINGS and salutations, dear friends! Here I am again, back from a vacation actually with my husband! Not only that, but...
...Judy recommends that I be 'glamourized' but all I ask is to look moderately cheerful...
...One can overlook the personal angle," I continued, "but it's got to a point where not only do prospective readers, so my supporters write me, refuse to read a column by such a grim harpy, but the tried and true are engaging in combat over this great issue...
...Prodded and poked by staff, readers, friends, and family I finally gritted my teeth and with a copy of The Progressive clutched in desperate fingers, I marched in to see a young woman whom I had been told could handle the most trying cases...
...Not only that, but you will be relieved and happy to observe that among the critical problems international, national, and down to our very doorsteps, I have at last settled a most embarrassing one for The Progressive...
...Editor Rubin wishes to entitle the accompany-ng picture "Phil's home...
...A newspaperman once told me I should never let my picture be taken because it was such a bad advertisement for Phil...
...One of our writers, visiting Madison recently for the first time, exploded, 'It's a libel...
...However, I began to take courage as she directed me into various easy positions instead of the old method under which you all have suffered—that of having your head tilted this way, then that and ordered to "hold it" for what seems like hours while the photographer fusses around with the camera...
...I was in the place less than 10 minutes and she worked with such speed that I wasn't conscious of my face settling into the lines of self-consciousness that usually attacks nonprofessional sitters...
...And to be very personal I'd like something to send to our boy overseas that won't be too much of a morale destroyer...
...I was afraid to spend an evening with a face like that...
...THE young woman didn't bat an eye-lash and directed me into the operating room...
...Here is a real ordeal and trial for you," I warned her and pointed to the phiz that has appeared these many years along with my column...
...At least if this face can't launch a thousand subscriptions, some way must be managed not to force The Progressive to the wall...
...It was a broiling day and she and I both groaned inwardly as we got under the battery of lights...
...Being more a la mode I think of it in terms of "The Smile...
...Something must be done-immediate-ly!' Another of our contributors recommended that I be photographed in Commander Seely's hat...
...When I went about the state speaking, women would come up and say, "Thank goodness youklon't look at all like your pictures...
...After taking 4 shots, the photographer directed, "Now what about a nice smile for the folks ?" Well, boys and girls, here she is...
Vol. 9 • August 1945 • No. 32
