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 | | These beauties, including notably Lily Elsie and Gabrielle Ray, were superstars, the supermodels, the celluloid goddesses of their day. |
 | | The huge feather-decorated hat which she wore for the role became immediately fashionable and enchanted the young Beaton, as did the spectacle of Gabrielle Ray dancing ïn a table at Maxim's in the same show. |
 | | Thus were ideas of fashion, theatre and female beauty forever allied in the high-keyed imagination of the precocious Beaton who, by the age of twelve, was experimenting with his own camera, under the tutelage of his nanny, using his pretty young sisters as models to concoct his ïwn glamorous fictions. |
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