SUZANNE AS A MANNEQUIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 61, 13 March 1926, Page 21

SUZANNE AS A MANNEQUIN.

SPORTS MODES SECRET OF HER

INCOME.

AND EVENING GOWNS.

Many have wondered how Mdlle. Lenglen, whose parents enjoy but quite moderate means, has all these years been able to carry on without losing her amateur status as a lawn tennis player. The incident when she was forbidden to receive a fee for exhibition games at Gleneagles will be fresh in the public memory.

Now the cat is out of the bag, and all through a little paragraph in a Riviera paper. Suzanne has turned mannequin for the famous house of Jean Patou. Her two-piece sports suits, her sweaters, her silk-pleated dresses for the courts, her scarves and her evening gowns and cloaks all are the product of Patou. Naturally Patou is doing a roaring trade in feminine sports clothes, since Suzanne goes everywhere in the smartest world and dances herself to a standstill when off the courts.

Suzanne, of course, has an extremely graceful figure, and makes an excellent mannequin.

Presumably there is no tennis law against champions being mannequins— at least lot us hope so, for Suzanne's father is a very sick man indeed nowadays, and his daughter does much to keep things going. Lenglen's costumes are now chronicled daily. So far she seems to favour pale green on the courts, though she has also played in a novel combination of beige Bcarf and sweater.