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Show iSriillj lid : America Leads All the Other CountriA m TAs English Connoisseur's Inter I I national Gallery of Loveliest Women I ! and fFfta , 'VSf- i Do You v;i.v C-. "; ' Selections I J A . . . ' ' ' S". . -' . , dpjp jgff m Senora Maria Di Castellani, the peculiar type of beauty chosen by Mr. Hoppe to represent Portugal in his remarkable collection of the world's most beautiful women FEW if any mm have had better opportunities than E. 0. Hoppe, the well known English photographer, photogra-pher, for studying and comparing the beauty of the women who aro considered the loveliest of many different nations. And now he has made interesting use of his long experience as a connoisseur of feminine beauty by compiling a list of the world's prize beauties the thirty -two wpmen from all the corners of the globe whom he considers the loveliest living specimens of their sex. It will be gratifying to Americans to note that in this international gallery of beauty their country has more representatives repre-sentatives than any other five, if you count only the white women, and six, if you include Princess White Deer, who represents the Red Indians and is really the most American of Americans, Besides the Indian princess, the beauties beau-ties chosen by Mr. Hoppo to represent America are Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Miss Mal-vina Mal-vina Longfellow, Miss Marion Davies, Viscountess Maidstone and Lady John Lavery. The last two, through their marriage to Englishmen, are British subjects, but both aro of American birth and ancestry. England comes next to America, with four representatives in the gallery Hebe, the famous fashion model; Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, Miss Glady3 Cooper and Miss Kathlone Martyn. There are four unnamed beauties, representing rep-resenting respectively the Dutch West Indies, Cuba, Hayti and Hawaii. And the other eighteen niches in thia new Hall of Beauty are divided among other countries and races, as follows: Scotland, Viscountess Masereno and Ferrard; Ireland, Miss Grace D'Arcy; France, Mile. Raymonde Thuillier; Algiers, Al-giers, Mme. Revalles ; Spain, Senora Tor-tola Tor-tola Valencia; gypsy, Miss Fedora Ro-selli; Ro-selli; Italy, Signora Comanetti; Portugal, Portu-gal, Senora Maria di Castellani; Russia, Mile. Fedorova; Poland, Mme. Mil:a Mikun; Norway, Miss 01ga Morrison; Sweden, Miss Anna Q. Nillson; Armenia, Armcnter Ohcnian; Chile, Countess Lis-burne; Lis-burne; Ecuador, Mrs. Iladdon Cham-. Cham-. bora; India, Princess Monchsa; Japan, Mrs. Tokugawa; China, Mrs. Wellington Koo. Mr. Hoppe has based his selection upon well-defined ideas of his own, acquired ac-quired after a painstaking starch of beauty the world over, covering more than twenty years. He explains the reasons rea-sons for choosing his prize beauties in "A Book of Fair Women," recently published pub-lished by Alfred A. Knopf. A woman may possess all the physical qualities of beauty nature can bestow, but if she lacks charm, according to Mr. Hoppe, she is only a sort of broken statue. A woman It incomplete, no matter how, rare her beauty, if she lacks this "passion "pas-sion of the soul a passion in which there is nothing physical, but rather a mental and spiritual elation overwhelming overwhelm-ing the simple call of the flesh." "Most women, when they desire to cultivate cul-tivate charm," Mr. Hoppe says, "read the memoirs of Ninon de l'Enclos, whereas where-as they would do better to analyze tho attractive qualities of the dog!" Why? Because, as this experienced judge of womanly loveliness explains, animals aro always charming because they are always natural, and to be natural nat-ural is 90 per cent of the secret of fascination. fas-cination. Although he makes his home In London, Lon-don, Mr. Hoppe has paid an annual visit to this country for many years past and has made a careful study not only of the members of fashionable society, but also of the American film and staee stars, 6hop girls, business frirls, college and school girls, and even tho farmers' daughters. "As the poet has said, the eye Is the window of the soul," says Mr. Hoppe. "The lire and flash of the eye represent the deep recesses of the soul. Of that there is no doubt. To be beautiful ono must have soul that spiritual something some-thing that warms, attracts and fascinates fasci-nates others." While Mr. Hoppe would award tho beauty prize for trim, neatly formed ankles to the English girl, he does not conceal his admiration, and even preference, prefer-ence, for the beautiful, expressive eyes of the Amercian girl. "The eyes of America's women," he thinks, "are more striking, because they are more dynamic and more fascinating. They are spiritually splendid. In their depths is reflected keen humor and quick perception. Their charm lies not so much in their color as in their expression. expres-sion. And nc other woman in the world knows how to manage this particular battery of beauty quite so well as the American girl. "When you converse with women of other countries their eyes, as a rule, take on a dreamy, far-away look. They have a habit of btaring at some imaginary ym 11 t: " ' ' A -X t? V ' -.0' raw i s ' & 8a ' - i '.Jiky 4 "own ' ' w h , - ... ..', as the most beau- . i tiful of all I Parisian fash- VSK sFa ion m o cl e i 3 ..-"3 also in evidence." ,, - r ' - ' "'H xl Mr. Hoppo ''.. i Wx thinks the typi- I . . ' :...'x , i, if... c a 1 American ' .T, " ' i ' -jrr ggi beauty of the E ' i- V ij near future will ' "" ' ' .- . be a girl with '.' brown hair, with f' .' '1 " " , i glints of bronze f. v I'-aj and copper in it; i" " ' ." a sort of chest- I" ' ? i ZAjk. u- 1 nut hrown; and . f1' eyes merry I" ; ! a T i.i '., -' eyes of a rich, f ' ' warm brown. Her ' - --- 1 1 r. -mi i complexion, he- predicts, will be Above Lady Lavery, a native of America and ac- nei.her distinct-credited distinct-credited here in the gallery of be?.u'.!es, a'though her v fair nor dis-man-iage to Sir John Levery. ihe disiinguished tinctly olive in artist, ha3 made her a British subject its tints, but place, giving them a sort of blank expression, ex-pression, whereas the American girl looks you straight in the eyes. She gives the impression of scorning the suggestion that she would cover the mirror of her soul to any one. Perhaps this is becauso of her sunerb confidence in herself. "With her eyes she appears to be continually con-tinually heliographing her personality, her interest-; and her enthusiasms. This produces a splendid effect and makes her most attractive. It constitutes a large part of her charm," said Mr. Hoppe. Observations made by Mr. Hoppe on his recent visits to America strengthen the belief that the pure Anglo-Saxon typo of beauty is fast being replaced hero by the Slav and Latin types. "I had expected to find that the blondo type, similar to our own English girls, would predominate in America," says Mr. Hoppe. "Instead, I found a frreatly increased number of dark beauties representing rep-resenting the Slov and Italian influence. influ-ence. A considerable Irish strain was ramer a mingling of both these types, with cheeks delicately deli-cately flushed with the crimson high lights of splendid health. Her figure, he prophesies, will be almost al-most boyish lithe, willowy, athletic by reason of the out-of-door exercise which is her particular hobby. "From the dictionary," says Mr. Hoppe, "wo learn there are five kinds of beauty the sublime, the proportional, the graceful, the luxurious and the pretty or handsome. "Of course, the term beauty to some extent is often confined to a question of nationality. What one race or people might call beautiful another would not, accustomed as they are to their own type. Nevertheless, a woman who possesses pos-sesses all tho earmarks of beauty such as artists like to paint and poets to sing about will, whether she be a dusky skinned nntive of southern skies or one of our own Anglo-Saxon race, be a woman who possesses great feeling and soul. These make for what might be f fNO!o 0 WOOD C UIOCPHOO ''OSH V M Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, one of the 3ix Ameri- '''M can prii? beauties, including V. ) white women and one red Indian wBKSF termed international types of beauty, and I believe . their number is increas- ing with the growth and , development of the mod- I ern woman in intellectual 4 thinp, as weil as with her new free 3 life, spent much in the open." Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, Mr. Hoppe thinks, is one of the purest types of Anglo-Saxon beauties to-day. Her grace and personality stand out, he says. He describes her as a marvel in grace of movement one whose whole body is eloquent. Lady DurT-Coopcr's American counterpart coun-terpart Mr. Hoppe believes to be found in Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, of New York, who represents an exotic type of Southern beauty, dark and with a beautiful beau-tiful complexion of ivory tint. ' Much that passes to-day for beauty," beau-ty," says Mr. Hoppe, "has b;en secured, all will admit, by art and artifice. Yet art, in the sense of fine art, has the giving giv-ing of pleasure as its object, achieving thereby the same end as beauty. And art, in a broad sense, means any object produced by man's brain and hand that which is not primanly a product of nature, na-ture, that which Is artificial, something in which skill has been added to the natural nat-ural foundation. "Should a plain girl who has by artifice arti-fice and bkill made herself a delight to the cje be classed as a beauty? Decidedly Decided-ly so! It is the duty of every woman to be as benutiful as possible at all times. "Many of the ancient philosophers believed be-lieved beauty and charm closely related, a view which I also share. No woman is beautiful unless she is possessed of a beautiful heart, mind and soul. "These qualities I have carefully taken into consideration in selecting tho most beautiful women in tho world. I have often seen plain women transformed trans-formed into enchantresses by the quality of their emotions and thoughts. A woman was not mado to be a statue. She was meant to be a woman." In his introduction to Mr. Hoppe's book, Richard King declares that beauty combined with charm, is a rarer quality than tho society papers would make us believe. In this combination, he says, you have the quality akin to genius, which has made a few beautiful women stand out, bold figures, in the long history his-tory of the world. "In the olden days," he says, "when monarchs were wont to wield their scepters rather in the manner of a bomb-thrower bomb-thrower his bombs, it was sufficient for a woman to attract tho royal eye in order at onco to gain a world wide Pepita Bobodilla, a piquant beauty from Bolivia, South America reputation for beauty. "In tho tuent.'.i century, the aesthetic taste of monarchs is 3jg! no longer approached unquestioning by the world. Tho power of a king's mistress is at social than aesthetic. To-day tfce rapher is more potent W the of a woman's reputation lor than the most autocratic erope tography is no longer merely ncss of exact reproduction . art, penetrating in its psycbolo lustration of character. "As one gazes at those JJ likenesses of lovely wome n sixty years ago, one realizes popularity of such a Plntfr halter. He, at any rate, ters' look like half sisters .to "k Eugenie, in a pose do BJJ for the decoration of cn Jfped To-day the photographer nas- ' position of all but the grcetertP Speaking of the typ ' 0 ,thlttk King states Mr. Hoppe r Al is no such thing as a iyF face." |