The Fingernail Party

The year is 1939 and these beautiful nails are about to be sawn off for social entertainment…

These are the Westmore brothers, and they have decided to throw a party. Let us hope that there are no scandals to spoil our hosts’ ascent of the social ladder.

The Westmore Brothers

Look! Here is the singer and celebrity Rudy Vallee, having a drink and socializing at the Westmores’ party.Things are going swimmingly!

Rudy Vallee

But wait! What’s this? Rudy is introduced to Juliette Marglen, a “Fingernailist”. He is quite taken aback by the length of Juliette’s fingernails. What to do?

Rudy encounters Juliet

Do not be afraid! FingernailJewelerMan is here! A crowd gathers as he uses his jeweler’s saw to saw off Juliet’s fingernails.

The cutting begins

The nails on the left hand have been sawn off. One more hand to go and Juliette can be re-introduced to Rudy Vallee without fear of offence!

Nail-less

FingernailJewelerMan holds the nails still whilst his assistant drills holes in the sawn off nails.

The drilling begins

Juliette loves her new necklace! She gets to keep her nails and be accepted at social gatherings! Thank you FingernailJewelerMan!

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Since publication Tarransky has unearthed some more information on Juliet, her nails and her necklace.

Apparently the necklace was lost…

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WbRaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9E8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6411%2C1705348

… and some more references on the same subject:

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http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_l5DAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5q0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1622,3552456&hl=en

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