MANNEQUIN Whistles HER WAY TO FAME

Charming Country Girl Brings New Note to Fashion Parades

A whistling mannequin is Australia's latest contribution to the world of fashion.

The whistler is Miss Beth McKay, who was Miss New South Wales in the 150th Anniversary Celebrations pageant and who is now engaged in mannequin work in Sydney.

AUSTRALIA has given the world lovely Margaret Vyner and Elizabeth Morris Edwards, of West Australia, but Miss McKay is the first charming mannequin to whistle her way to fame.

If desired she can display the latest Parisian fashion trends to the tuneful whistle of a Vienna waltz or a hot New York rhythm. A broadcast mannequin parade with a whistling accompaniment was one of her recent achievements. 

Six months ago Miss McKay was living quietly at Coff's Harbor, bored with the day to day routine.

She came to Sydney for a holiday, decided she preferred the city to the country, and reviewed her qualifications for a career.

Mannequin work appealed to her, so she enrolled at a Sydney manne-quin school for a course of training. Already she has been engaged for several big parades.

Now she wakes up every morning not knowing quite what the day will bring. She may be wearing beautiful imported gowns in a mannequin parade, posing for photographs, on the air in a radio programme, or taking part in a film.

At a recent fashion parade a radio official heard her whistling - a habit that runs in her family when feeling cheerful or preoccupied-and shortly afterwards she whistled over the air at a community singing session at the Theatre Royal. 

MANNEQUIN Whistles HER WAY To FAME (1938, April 16). The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), p. 33.