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Show Good Looks by Study. The Cri de Paris, the weekly gossip gos-sip magazine, says that Maj. Sir William Wil-liam Orpen, the painter, who is stilt working on pictures of the peace conference, con-ference, was haunted by the idea, when lie was young, that he was very ugly.-He ugly.-He used to , turn his face aside in the street to avoid being seen. Working as an art student, he noticed no-ticed that his fellow-pupils, by dint of mental concent rat Ion upon the beautiful beau-tiful models of antiquity, gradually came somewhat lo resemble them In their own features. ( irprn eagerly awaited promotion lo the same class, (tnd determined lo spend all his time copying the Venus de Milo. "1 shall thus acquire her admirable expression of haughly serenity." he said. "lTn-fortunalely," "lTn-fortunalely," lie continues, "whi-n I was promoted lo copying anllqaily my master made me spend tin' whole year drawing nothing but 'The Pancing Faun,' so Ihal I never realised my ambition." |