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The Februs Interview — Luna Winter

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Janus model ( The Chastening of Loretta Amaro , The Big Four-O) and Cheek to Cheek actress ( Dance School I , Dance School II —Dancing Discipline , Dance School III —Triple Trouble , Secretarial College ) Luna Winter is interviewed by Will Scarlet. From Februs 20. Well here we are, with a Will again, oh faithful readers. Shortly after New Year, our amazing Lady Editor, Paula Meadows, and her husband, honoured my humble maisonette for dinner. Paula brought me a copy of The Janus Collection in which she looks back over her years as illustrator and model for Janus. The book contains over a hundred of the drawings which she did during her time with that illustrious magazine. There are also photos of Paula herself, in action!! If you haven’t already ordered or bought this from your newsagent, you will of course be wanting to now. Go on! My interview will still be here when you get back. The meal being over, the conversation turned to...

The Chastening of Loretta Amaro

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Photo-story from Janus 87 featuring Luna Winter Part I Summer in Suburbia. A young woman in trouble. big trouble. Aloof and leggy, dignified, smart; chilled despite the day’s warmth. What is he going to do to her? Perhaps, even now, she could talk her way out. He asked her, told her, to dress ‘revealingly’ when she came to see him today — a jibe at her feminist principles? ‘Espionage,’ he said it was. Clearly he is not as inept as she thought him. My God, a worm like that! Boss or no boss, at every turn she has let him know exactly what she thought of him. Now this! Raven hair bobbing, red lips set, she reaches his house door. It stands ajar. She hesitates, remembering with chagrin what has brought her to this point. ‘Miss Amaro!’ he rapped one morning last week. No ‘excuse me, Loretta’. Had the worm turned? ‘The copy you made of that classified investment document when you thought, incorrectly, that I was out of the o...