European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nina Blanchard seated with some of her Beautiful girls and boys. Up who has Beautiful girls Ehi a by Richard h. Growald United press International blonde hourglass a Young Mae West Ona platform of High heels and in a tiny Blouse and shorts to accept the 90-degree Sunshine and advertise the curves Clops onto Hollywood  sidewalk pavement is embedded with tiled stars in which Hollywood enshrines the names of its  Crosby Bob Hope Guy Lombardo Judy Garland and Gracie Allen of  Cliff Arquette Ruby Keeler Eugene Pallette Mack Sennett and de Archie Gardner  hourglass two fingers of her right hand holding out her purse like a handkerchief to be dropped clop sover this horizontal mount Rushmore. A blonde teen Ager his hands in his Levis prowls the curb and shows off the White letters on his Black  the lettering i have abandoned the search for truth and am looking for a Good  he stares a passersby. None appears to offer fantasy. Or even their  floors up on Wall to Wall carpeting and in air conditioning fantasy and eyes meet. I have the most Beautiful girls in America in the world says Nina Blanchard. She owns and runs what advertisers photographers and models generally Call the most successful Model Agency West of new York. Magazine covers on one Wall offer testimony. Blanchard girls High cheekbones Long necks no buggy upper eyebrows smile out coolly would be Greta Garbos from the photographic covers of Vogue Harper s Bazaar cosmopolitan Mademoiselle Glamour and even time which did a cover Story on Cheryl Tiegs who has found truth fantasy and some wealth As Star of the Blanchard models. The Agency has 100 girls. And 70 men 40 of the movie stuntmen but others including upper bracket models such As Matt Collins and John Mcmurray. The Success of Nina Blanchard could be  drives a Mercedes. She has a Hollywood Home real estate agents bid for. At Musso & Frank the Hollywood Boulevard Grill where f. Scott Fitzgerald Nathanael West and other writers fed themselves to script screen fantasy a table Waits without reservation for Nina Blan Chard and the owner offers a bottle of wine free of , behind her desk she rubs the two rings one is a Tiger s head and the other is jewelled with two Tiger eyes on her right hand and says it s so terrible i m be coming  13 staffers do not ring for the funny farm. In Holly Wood and elsewhere where Beauty is in one Eye of the beholder and a Cash estimate is in the other inhabitants enjoy likening their world to insanity. A $100,000-a-Yearmodel talks of this All being a Sponie  All say All Are nuts. Visitors Are expected to smile and not  s reference of the moment s particular in sanity is aimed at Young women and men seeking jobs Asmodeus. Her office receives 200 asking letters a week some 150 Telephone Calls a Day and the dainties heavy scenes the hourly drop in would be Model. One girl ears like Bambi refused to leave. The Security men escorted her out. She came Back. Out she went again. She returned staged a sit Down strike vowing not to move unless i signed her. The Security men saturday september 2, 1978 daily Magazine came a third time and drove it  there was the male who pulled a knife. Three male models models subdued him. Turning them Down is hard. I try to be honest. But some Are so vulnerable i lie she said. She petted the Tiger  they re attractive but won t do i Tell them maybe their eyes Are too close together the skin in t right. On girl got very loud and demanded i be specific. Her Mother was behind her and cheering daughter  i was honest. I said listen Honey your nose is too big your Teeth Are terrible your eyes almost meet oneside of your jaw is larger than the other your face is lop sided. The girl just barked that that was what i thought and Mother and daughter marched  Blanchard touched a Finger to her red hair. A Holly Wood Boulevard sign of of my gawd. In six months i see maybe three who have it. Three out of  what every most Beautiful girl in the world must have according to Blanchard height Between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9v2. In stocking feet. Measurements bust 33 to 35 inches Waist 23 to 25inches, hips 33 to 35 inches. A Long neck. Any Greta Garbo could play Ann Christie but not every Anna Christie could be a Greta  a High school diploma. The girl s got to do something at 27, when modelling is Over. Few Model More than 10 years. Male models last longer they re not so  Blanchard sat a desk opposite Dana Kimmel a former Little miss world out of Center Texas now a Urcla drama student with two past parts in the Charlie s Angel Sand son Pedro Beach bums television serials and a role in an Abc film being made. The Agency rejected Kimmel 19, in december. Too Short. Her classical face brought her  leafing through Kimmel s album of photo graphs these shots Are perfectly  ill get new  born in Greenwich conn., Nina Blanchard was brought to California at aged one. There was Hollywood High school and the 16-year-old girl Friend whose Dat turned out to be gangster Mickey Cohen. And the girl scouts. I was at Camp Ojito near Bigbear singing if there were witchcraft and the Pio neers did t want me so they sent me Over to the Chicho pan troop and they thought i was a malcontent and they were right and they fired me from the girl scouts and i was sent  giving an Oral recital of one s life is a Holl Woodart form. Blanchard knows the right gestures. The Chin goes Down. The eyes up. She loves her models one said. She always wanted to be one  maybe. But she studied dramatics at a los Angele Junior College and journalism at Columbia University was fired by a los Angeles weekly newspaper for allow ing helpful colleagues on other papers to write one of her stories was fired by an Oil company for being a clerk who advised on policy and she married a television director Back in the Black and White and Philco playhouse Days and found wealth and happiness for a decade As a makeup  s career went Down they tried operating an Auto Muffler shop in Phoenix the Torch Nina Blanchar can carry is acetylene they went bankrupt he went away and she opened her Hollywood Beauty Mode Agency 17 years ago. She has no children. That s it said a Blanchard Model. She thinks of Usas her  an agent is supposed to link advertiser and cameraman to Model. Blanchard does some  House is a dormitory for models either rising with out Money or arriving from new York without room. She spends much Money on parties to keep her models if not the Model users Happy. She allows employees to Talback. A dog named Thrifty sniffs artists and models in the Agency office.  her door a male Model is told Nina Blanchard plans to raise her fee for getting a Model a photographic assignment from 10 to 15 percent. Nina has a Nice figure and a face like a plateful of Worms he says. The male Model is told Blanchard has not yet made a final decision on upping the fee and that a girl in the office says maybe it will be hiked and an other girl says no. I love Nina the male Model  bin. Hollywood. The stars and stripes Page 13