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Show FEW REALLY UGLY PEOPLE Many There Are Who May Be Unat-tractive, Unat-tractive, but Not a Lot Definitely Defin-itely Ill-Looking. Looking for beauty in the faces and forms passed on the street Is such a fixed habit with people in general that it was a hit startling to hear of a man In London who was looking for some one ugly the ugliest female, In fact, that he could find. This man was an American theatrical man and he de-sired de-sired the ugliest woman to contrast her in a production with lirl said The showman found his ugliest woman after looking over eight contestants. con-testants. The prize winning "clock-stopper" "clock-stopper" was thirty-two years old and a music teacher. She entered the contest con-test because her mother told her "there would be no harm in trying." On winning she at once insisted on taking a stage name, as she "did not want all the neighbors to know about it." The runner-up in the contest, whose name was not given out, had an unfortunate nose and an "outsize" "out-size" in mouths. The contest really was of concern to the theatrical producer, but it served to Impress upon Londoners In general the old truth that few people, after all. are really ugly, that every Individual looks good to some one. Two people, who came upon the advertisement ad-vertisement of the ugly contest, began to amuse themselves In the genial way' of human nature by examining their friends and acquaintances to discover 'which of them had the best claim to the job. To their disappointment, says a writer in the London Telegraph, they could not think -of anybody, not even their pet abomination, who was. considered con-sidered Impartially, very ugly. Plain people oh. yes. hosts of them; dls-asrrr-eable-looking people quite a lot: silly-looking people any amount; but people definitely and conspicuously ugly not one. '. |