Kathie Comes Before Modelling

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 2

Kathie Comes Before Modelling

"The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, June 7. Miss Margaret Deas, of Sydney, has sacrificed without regret the glamorous but taxing life of a fashion model, to devote more time to rearing her two-year-old daughter.

“I have not done much modelling for a month now,” said Miss Deas who, in private life is Mrs N. McGurgan. “Kathie has become a bit of a handful and I feel I have been at it for long enough. I loathe work so she is a good excuse.” Miss Deas expects to stay in Auckland for three or four months. Her husband has

been in Auckland for some time working with a cosmetics firm for which Miss Deas will do some photographic work. She has been a model for nine years and for seven years has been the head model with the June DaileyWatkins agency in Sydney. Her career has been one that young models would like to emulate. As one of the recognised “top three” models in Sydney, Miss Deas was able to choose her assignments.

She has also landed “plum" assignments in exotic countries. Two years ago, she was one of a team of eight to

visit Fiji for three weeks and she has flown to Singapore and Bangkok on modelling jobs. “It was really hard work each time,” she said, “but 1 got to see the town far more than any tourist would. 1 was treated fantastically—a chauffered Mercedes Benz, champagne, cocktail parties, everything. It was hard to come back down to earth and start washing dishes again at home.” Kathie already is an ac-

complished model—much to her mother’s dismay. The day she was born, her photograph appeared in the newspapers, and at three weeks old she “posed” for her first professional assignment She is quite at ease in the photographic studio and faces the camera with professional aplomb. “She is a real little actress,” said Miss Deas, “but I am not going to let her keep on modelling. I do not like child models. Most are little horrors who have to be bribed into doing anything." To be a leading model was not just a matter of climbing

to the top of the modelling tree, but of working hard to stay there. This meant adapting to every new “look” that reached popularity. The favoured image at the moment was the “go-go look” and Miss Deas said that by adapting her hairstyle and make-up she could imitate it quite successfully. “All you have to do,” she laughed, “is to stand bowlegged and put a thumb in your mouth.” Now, however, she wants to bow out gracefully, but finds this easier to say than to do. “I have gone out of circulation for a few months to see if that does the trick. But probably when I get back to Sydney they will all say, ‘Oh, here’s a new face,’ and start hiring me all over again.”

Glenmark Plunket Society. —Officers, elected at the 41st annual meeting of the Glenmark sub-branch of the Plunket Society were.—Patronesses, Mesdames H. Adling ton, A. Campbell, E. Foster, R. Stokes, J. Sloss, and A. Thomson; president, Mrs J. J. McLean; vice-presidents, Mesdames F. J. Bain and L. Baxter; secretary, Mrs J. Corbett; assistant secretary, Mrs J. F. Wyllie; treasurer, Mrs M. Kay; committee, Mesdames R. Bradley, M. Brown, J. Carr, C. Chapman, I. Davidson, J. Doak, J. Dunnill, J. B. Farmer, T. Gabrieison, B. Harris, J. Harris, H. Henderson, H. Hamilton P. Inkson, J. Inkson, T. King, A. McAnulty, A. McLean, S. McLean, G. Muir, J. Mullins, I. Munro M. Munro, K. O’Fee, K. Stackhouse, R. Sincock, B. Thomson, J. Thomson, E. J. Whyte, D. A. Wyllie, A. J. Wyllie, and B. Wynn-Williams.