Charming Her Way To The Top

In a profile by influential Harlem Renaissance artist and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, Blanche was described as "an artist at dress and social behavior." 

"Her wardrobe began to acquire silver foxes and exotic jewelry. She was to be seen at all Broadway first nights, dressed as well and as expensively as any of the paler ladies who gied for such honors; wearing her color as others did their well-known names, and to the same end."

As her popularity grew, he wrote, so too "did the numbers of her admirers, the greatness of their names, the lavishness and extensiveness of their expenditures, the expensiveness of her wardrobe, the autocracy of her charm."

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