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Novelist Loved Atlanta Girl’s Picture Peggy Mitchell.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, who originated the flapper, once fell in love with the picture of an Atlanta girl. Fitzgerald, author of “This Side of Paradise” and “The Beautiful and Damned”, never saw the original of the photograph, but he became so enamored of the picture, that he wrote verses to the girl whom he never met. Martin Amorous, who has returned to Atlanta from New York to open a studio in the Connaly building, was a roommate of Fitzgerald’s at that time at the Newman school in Hackensack, N.J., and he tells here about the novelist and the photograph—the original of whom was “Anne.” Can you guess the rest of the name? Martin Amorous spent several years in New York designing costumes for plays and revues, and in addition to reminiscences of his famous schoolmate, he has brought back to Atlanta original ideas as to how the Atlanta girl should dress. “When Scott and I were room mates at Newman,” said Mr. Amorous, “I had the picture of a very lovely Atlanta girl on the mantle piece of o

Novelist Loved Atlanta Girl’s Picture Peggy Mitchell. Novelist Loved Atlanta Girl’s Picture by Peggy Mitchell F. Scott Fitzgerald, who originated the flapper, once fell in love with the picture of an Atlanta girl. Fitzgerald, author of “This Side of Paradise” and “The Beautiful and Damned”, never saw the original of the photograph, but he became so enamored of the picture, that he wrote verses to the girl whom he never met. *** Martin Amorous, who has returned to Atlanta from New York to open a studio in the Connaly building, was a roommate of Fitzgerald’s at that time at the Newman school in

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