Man Ray in Paris during the late 1920s). They had even met at a surrealist ball. It was like being ‘struck by lightning’, Penrose said.
A note she wrote to him afterwards was filled with one word: ‘darling’, over and over again.When they got back to Hampstead after that boat crossing, Miller found a fierce letter from the US embassy insisting she return to her native New York for her own safety.
Not that she heeded it, preferring to tear it up, pour a stiff drink and plot her next move: Vogue. One wonders if she asked Penrose his opinion about any of it, but I doubt it.Vogue, though, turned her down.
They were doing just fine with Cecil Beaton, they said. Only they hadn’t reckoned with Miller’s grit: she began turning up at the magazine’s.
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