The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 62

E8, THE SUN, Sunday, August 8, 1982 From Maryland, with flair: blond, blue-eyed model Emlen Ty dings "I never made a point of telling people my father was a v2x i jr she says, adding that she has no, interest in politics. "When people say, 'What's your I say, 4My name is I don't like people digging into my past and saying my father did this and didn't do this. It's not me and it doesn't have anything to do with me. He was in the public eye. Not me." EMLEN, from El The decision to leave home was "pretty much a mutual agreement," she says now, adding that she doesn't want to talk about those years.

After high school, Ms. Tydings moved to Vermont where she worked as a waitress and, later, in a potter's studio, and then to Sante Fe, N.M., where she worked in a cabinet shop making speakers, doors and cabinets. was just hangin' out," says the self-proclaimed "happy-go-lucky resting back in her chair at an outdoor cafe, stretching out her long, tanned legs that pour out from under short culotte-shorts. "Doing whatever felt good. you're not ready for college, you shouldn't go and waste your parents' money and go through some liberal arts program.

A lot of people do it. I never really was into school." The round-faced, blue-eyed beauty is definitely into modeling, although she's quick to recite the typical model's credo that "it's not as glamorous as I expected." It was her boyfriend's father, Peter Diamandis, publisher of Woman's Day magazine, who suggested last October she try modeling. "At that point, I was ready to try anything," she says, alternating puffs of a Marlboro with sips of lemonade. "Modeling had crossed my mind before, but just like it crosses every girl's mind. I never did anything about it." Both her father and her mother, now Mrs.

S. Bonsai White of Ruxton, are supportive of her new career, she says, and even her 11-year-old half-sister, Alexandra, has started modeling in New York. "My mom loves it. My father I don't know if encouraging is right word, but he's been helpful. He thinks it's fine.

As long as I'm happy, he's all for it." And indeed, her father, now with a Washington law firm, says he hopes his daughter has found a career she enjoys and will progress in. "I'm proud of the fact that she works hard, that she's a success," said Mr. Tydings, who now is married to the former Terry Huntingdon. "Since she was a young child, she's always been says, adding that she has no interest in politics. "When people say, 'What's your I say, 'My name is I don't like people digging into my past and saying my father did this and didn't do this.

It's not me and it doesn't have anything to do with me. He was in the public eye. Not me." But these days she's -grabbed her own share of the spotlight. Aside from the Clairol commercial where she uttered, "About the party tonight', I want to go" and then giggled she's been featured in Self, Mademoiselle and Brides magazines and has modeled everything from Ralph Lauren sweaters to lingerie. But the TV spot has been her favorite job so far.

In fact, she enjoyed it so much that she's even thinking of acting as a next step. "It's kinda weird seeing yourself )n TV," she says with a shy, hesitant smile. "It's a nice feeling. You kinda don't believe it. With magazines, you open them and say, 'Oh my God, why'd they put that one Ms.

Tydings says she loves New York, quietly singing the familiar jingle with those words. She shares an apartment in Greenwich Village with her boyfriend, Peter Diamandis, who works for a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and says she's gotten into the swing of the city's inimitable life style. "I know where to go," she says with a yawn that suggests that she does. "Not that I go." There's a lot of money to be made in modeling, especially in commercials, she says, not wanting to elaborate. But that wasn't really a factor in her decision to go into the field.

"When you first start out, you don't even know if you'll make it. As you become more successful, money becomes more of a factor." Ms. Tydings has anywhere from four jobs a week to no jobs a week. The jobless days she spends going to her "go sees" appointments set up by her agency with potential clients. When she has a job, she gets up early, washes her hair, and is off.

Keeping her weight down is not too much of a problem. She belongs to a health club, plays tennis a lot and skis The SunLloyd Pearson Bruno Meyer applies makeup to model Emlen Tydings. more than an hour her face plays host to Bruno's brushes, liners, Q-tips, and puffs. She changes chairs and her hair is brushed back, pulled up and puffed out by Philippe. She tries on a black ruffled blouse, then a white one, then the black one again.

She sits in front of the camera for hour upon hour as photographer Bruce Byers clicks away, all the time changing angles, all the time calling out to her, "Yea, pretty, hold that there, yea, yea, that's what I want, pretty, uh huh, bring your eyes back, very nice." A break. Then it starts again. This time with the white blouse. "She's on her way to becoming fairly successful," Mr. Meyer says, adding that he chose her for his card because she was professional to work with.

"She works very hard. She's a go-getter she doesn't wait for the work to come to her." Her quickly found success, he says, "is very American, very New York-ese. That's what New York has to offer." But for a model just starting out, Europe has a lot more to offer in terms of magazines and, thus, jobs and that's where she's headed this month. After she has assembled a good enough portfolio, she plans to come back to New York and continue modeling "until I get bored," she adds. "Then I'll go to acting school." "I'm proud of myself," she says, deep coral lipstick, heavy mascara and pinned up hair adding about 10 years albeit 10 very attractive years to her look.

"I never thought I'd be where I am right now. I hoped I would be successful, but I didn't know if I would be. I just took a big old chance. It sure was worth a try." But, she says, her free spirit breaking through the layers of powder, rouge and eye shadow, "if I had my way I'd just be sitting out in the mountains of Sante Fe. But you gotta make a living, in the winter.

"You just have to watch what you eat. Sometimes you feel like a hot fudge sundae and you can't have one." The hard part for Ms. Tydings is the actual modeling. "Just getting used to a camera sitting in front of you is hard," she says, fidgeting with a lock of her long straight hair. "I'm still learning I still have a hard time moving.

The photographer can really make a big difference. I need someone really light, not intimidating at all. "It's fun, but it's not that glamorous," she reiterates. "As you'll soon see." She grabs a hot dog for lunch which is eaten in the cab on the way to a noon-time job being photographed for makeup artist Bruno Meyer's business card, something that will give her a lot of exposure since it will be sent out to photographers and advertisers. At the studio, she sits in front of a large, brightly lit makeup mirror.

For a hard worker. She's always been independent, a free spirit, so to speak. She's not a diplomat sometimes, but she's a very kind person, a good friend to her friends. "It's very tough, though. It's a highly competitive field, but she's very independent, a fine young lady." And though the second oldest daughter to the socially prominent Maryland family is aware of the fiercely competitive nature of her business, in true happy-go-lucky form, she says it doesn't affect her.

"I'm not a competitve person. I push and I try as hard as I can, but I don't go in there and push my weight. It's not worth getting upset about." Likewise, Emlen, named after her great-grandmother, says she's never tried to capitalize on her father's name or position. If anything, she seems to remove herself from her family's celebrity. "I never made a point of telling people my father was a senator," she Astrological forecast By Sydney Omarr Aries (March 21-April 19): Now you can successfully break with past for purpose of pioneering a project.

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