Show 1 E Europe c Fairest of Con Corning Here to Compete Would Wed American L Miss Simon Wl Who Beats Venus a Mile Says He Must Be Rich European Will Have No Walkaway Critic Says By CORALIE VAN Copyright 1929 ly by Press PublishIng Publishing Publish Publish- Ing Co N. N Y 1 World PARIS March ElIzabeth 9 Simen Simon Si- Si mon men the gIrl who was selected b by byan an international jury ot of dIstinguished dIstinguish dIstinguish- ed artists and esthetes sitting in Paris and jUdged to be the pearl ot of femInine pulchritude for the entire European continent comes from Hungary is 19 years ears old a high school graduate and is the daughter of the chief medIcal inspector of Budapest Miss Hungary who becomes through the jurys jury's action Miss Europe Europe Eu- Eu rope and who is destined to contest the primacy claim for tor beauty of the world at Galveston Is po possessed ofa ot of ota a delicate bl blonde nde beauty of extreme aristocratic finesse accordIng to the official announcement But that eulogy does not even begIn begin be- be gIn to express th the young womans woman's utter perfection of line arid and fea- fea Lures tures Her ambition is to marry a good looking American boy bor who she specifies must be intelligent gent and andrich rich No motion picture contract no theatrical career for MIss Simon At least that is what she declared most emphatically on the eve ot of other her departure for the United States The only drawback to the young oung ladys lady's plans when may come Hollywood Holly Holly- wood sees her According to Kees van Dongen society painter and glorIfier of the thc mode the European beauty queen beats the classic Venus to a frazzle SAYS SHE BEATS VENUS There is no comparison between Miss Europe and that old lumpy dame In the Louvre museum he said But I am afraid the name Miss lIss Europe is not quite That graceful suppleness Isan is isan an American characteristic Or at least the idea came from America It does not fit the European type type- neither the Teutonic nor the Latin type seems to be adaptable to a slender silhouette members on the jury were Georges de la Ia the wittiest journalist of Paris Maurice de Waleffe the Belgo Parisian chronicler who is rising In popular esteem as an authority on beauty and elegance the famous Japanese painter Sacha pla playwright and theatre owner and delegates from Hungary Germany Austria Ital Italy and other countries participating in the contest Though Miss Europe goes to America as the unanImous choIce of the jur jury Miss 1 Germany MIss Italy Miss lIss Rumania MIss Dublin I and several others will tr try their chances once more on the other side ot of the water The possibility exists that the American jurys jury's estimation estima- estima lion tion might prefer another t type pe than the one pIcked by the European exp ex- ex p HAS NO WALKOVER A A. note of defeatism crept into the enthusiastic atmosphere following the enthronement of Miss Europe In the national opera when Kees van Dongen threw cold water vater on high running predIctions ot of an easy victory vie vic tory over an any American candidate It If the jury thinks that Miss Hungary will just have haye a walkover In Galveston they are badly mistaken mistaken mis- mis taken and dont don't know a great deal of AmerIcan women My experIence as a critic ot of feminine beauty based upon years of quiet reflection and acute observation undertaken now In the sands of Deauville or Biarritz and then again in the fashIonable fashionable fash- fash drawIng rooms of Paris have led ne inc to the unchangeable conviction that Americas America's women are the most moat beautiful on earth I do not deny that many Euro Euro- European women have a winning and wondrously charming personality but for sheer sheer- ph physical perfection the AmerIcan women cannot be equaled The only fault that I 1 find tind with American women is their voices They are harsh Nobody will doubt that But even at that I Iam Iam am told that thIs a great deal on the particular locality they come front Certain Americans have astonished me with the musical musical musi- musi cal softness of their voices Americans Still st they were exceptions |