atddta 32:summary part 2

[Michael Bailey]

grladams wrote:
>   More on the AOD soon..
>

AOD could also be a reference to an angle in a diagram.
Not sure how this might illuminate the action, though.

>"Unlike others in the modeling line she had taken the actress's approach
>and actually read up on the abstrations she was instructed to embody, as a
>way of 'getting inside the character.' What was the point in trying to
>incarnate Bimetallism unless you could lean
>everything you could about it?"

The 1896 silver certificate had a female "spirit of instruction" depicted on it
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/US_%241_1896_Silver_Certificate.jpg
(Gotta say, better imho than the ugly mugs on our money these days.
If they have to put guys on the money, why not some Baldwins?)

Naunt, then Dalley (and by extension, OBA) musing upon the girls who wound
up posing for these statues.....
a) the obese model? what significance there?  Naunt "had to slim her down"
b) models from out in the sticks whom somebody spotted and steered into
the talent pool.  (which approximately happened to Dalley on her arrival in
New York)

the significance of good looks - appropriated to embody ideals?