The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-18
LONDON'S BEAUTY SHOW
CHARLES kIRALFY Is HERE LOOK
ING FOR PRETTY WOMEN.
He Stops i'm Indianapolis on His Way
to ChicagO-FOur Women to Com
pete from This Country.

Charles Kiralfy, son of Imre Kiralfy,
who has made himself famous in the spec
tacular theatrical business, is at the Deni-
son House. Mr.. Kiralfy is a good-looking,
dark-eyed young man of about thirty
years. He lives in London. where his ia
Their has been engaged as director general
of the Woman's International Exhibition,
which takes place in May.
In connection with the exhibition there
will be beauty show" in which hand
some women of all nations will compete
for a substantial prize. Mr. Charles kir-
alfy is visiting in the United States in the
interest of the beauty show. Before he
returns to England he expects to select
four pretty women, who will be invited to
go to London and compete for the prize.
Although Mr.. Kiralfy's business in Indian
apolis is not directly to select women for
his beauty show he is always on the alert
for talent" in this direction, and is keenly
alive to all the fair faces he meets. He
has been in the East for several weeks,
and is now on his way to Chicago. He has
friends in this city, and stopped over to
visit them for a day or two. He expects
to go to Chicago at noon to-day.
After Mr.. Kiralfy has seen all the hand
some women 1t is possible for him to find
in this country he will go to New York and
make his selection there. He is constantly
receiving photographs. and frequently re-
ceives letters of a ludicrous nature. Most
of the letters he receives. he says. come
from young girls. from seventeen to twen-
ty years of age. The majority of them in
close their photographs. with apologize
remarks to the effect that they do not
think the picture does them justice. Mr..
Kiralfy says that all the time he was In
New York city he saw few women whom
he would call beautiful. He saw no one
there he thought handsome enough TO in
vite to the beauty show. 1.-THE prettiest
woman I've seen in this country" said he.
was in Ohio a day or two ago, when L
was riding on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
She got on at a small station and left the
train at Piqua. She was beautiful wom-
an, and Immediately thought Of our beau
ty show and how should like to have her.
but, of course, dared not approach her."
Mr.. Kiralfy says that the woman's ex-
hibition is to be simply society show
The Duchess of Sutherland. the Countess
of Warwick, the Countess of Ellesmere,
the Duchess of Devonshire and host OF
other women in English society have in
tereSted themselves in the beauty COM
petition. Beauties of all nations will con-
tend for the golden prize, but Mr.. kiralfy
feels confident that an American beauty
will carry off the honors. The four women
who are to go from this country will be
provided with first-class passage to and
from England, with frocks that only the
greatest beauty in all the world should
wear and with entertainment in London
that a princess of the blood might envy.
Only women between the ages OF sixteen
and twenty-six are eligible.
Mr.. Kiralfy said that in Indianapolis he
has seen a great many young women on
the streets whom he would like to invite
to enter the contest, but of course he did
not know them and did not dare mention
his scheme. The Kiralfys will have a thea
ter at the Paris exposition. They expected
to present 1.-THE Belle of New York" but
will not on account of a hitch in the ar
rangements. Mr.. Kiralfy says that Eng
land will give the exposition frost" on
account of the manner In which the Queen
has been caricatured by the French news
papers.
In the London beauty show women from
the following nations have been invited 20
take part: United States, England. Ire
land, northern Germany, Austria, Russia,
Spain, Denmark, Norway, Canada, Scot
land, France, Bavaria, Hungary, Italy,
Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland There
will also be separate competition OF
Oriental nations comprising the most beau
tiful women of Japan. Egypt, China and
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