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Lois Leads A Model Life By MAYBELLE SPECKMANN ACTRESS-MODEL Lois McManus insists she has orous and prefers her role as suburban wife and never been able to master the art of being glam- mother of three sons despite the chores, such as this one pictured that go with it. TRYING TO get a feature on former president Harry famous 6 morning walk when he was in San Francisco for a United Nations anniversary work for Lois McManus when she and two associates were putting together a TV program presenting news, features and interviews for women. But she enjoyed the breakfast she and others at the press conference had as guest at the Fairmont HoteL DISCOVERED AT the age of 15 by John Robert Powers in New York City, Lois McManus of Mill Valley began a 23-year career as an actress-model doing junior fashions. These are some of the pictures taken early in her career. Today she prefers doing filmed commercials.

Power predicted go on in the modeling field. LOIS McMANUS of Mill Valley really look like this when she reprimands any one of her three sons, Boyle, 11, Christopher, 8, and Reed, 7. It shows what a remarkably mobil face she of the reason for her success in her career, for she can look like many different women. 9 Ifjann THIRD SECTION Jttbrprttbnti-SourttaL August 5, 1964 39 Actress-model, musician, astute business woman and a wife and mother who frankly being a is Mrs. James McManus of Mill Valley.

not a says Lois. enjoy being a wife and mother. I find more creative, demanding and rewarding than anything I have ever done Perhaps the strangest part of this story is that for 23 years Lois McManus has been trying to get out of the modeling field. TIMES tried to quit the business because it creative, and as a musician I feel it is one of the most nonproductive, unsatisfying businesses in the world. But they keep hiring me for money, and somehow there always seems to be a need for more of Discovered at the age of 15 by the famed John Robert Powers.

who predicted go on Lois began to do junior modeling before the magazine was started. IT IS EASY to see why Powers predicted this career for her, for Lois has not only the usual requirements for a model but an extremely mobile face capable of registering the full gamut of emotions and the ability to look like many different women. one of the reasons been in this game so she confessed. keep Added to these qualifications Lois has a sparkling personality, Irish wit (third generation) and a highly contagious, hearty laugh. She insists she is not glamorous, but that depends upon one's definition of glamor.

NEVER been able to master the art of being she says, because never been willing to devote the time necessary and partly because I'm sort of absent minded. There have been occasions when I really felt elegantly put together only to find my) white gloves match. home and gadding about Mill Valley I even wear Launched by Powers in New York City, Lois was a cover girl on 17 magazines, all the time swearing she would quit as soon as she made one major quit she did when she made a cover. But it for long. Taking up the invitation of MUSIC IS Lois first love.

Today she plays Bach and Beethoven only for her own satisfaction at this little foot-pump reed organ. She can seldom be persuaded to play for any number of people, but she joys playing in groups, as she did when she was a French horn player in her high school orchestra and in the orchestra at Dominican College until two years ago. (Independent-Journal photo) friends to live with them in Berkeley while attending the University of California, she soon found modeling was an excellent way to earn the money for her education. And she graduated from Cal with a B.S. degree in business administration.

knew I would have to earn my she said, since I want to go on with modeling, I chose the business BUT HER FIRST job turned out to be that of news girls on an early KGO TV program en- titled Francisco Note-1 She also did two quiz shows for KRON, was one of the assistant producers of the "Standard when it was on TV and an assistant fashion coordinator for the White House department store in San Francisco. The most important step in her career was her marriage to James McManus, who is now vice president of the Young Rubieam advertising agency in San Francisco, and she settled down happily into the role of suburban wife and mother of three sons. They are Doyle, 11, Christopher, 8, and Reed, 7. like she says. so Before long, though, Lois was intrigued by the possibility of doing a TV program presenting news, features and interviews for women, and she actually made a pilot show with two associates to be presented hopefully to TV stations.

It was at this time following a press conference of former Continued on page 49.