The evening world., 1911-01-28
FAMOUS UTIES
AND ARTISTS DARK.
MISS ~TALIAFERRO.

AL tho women VINO ut miuuie
g still ensiaved mon had dark
hair.
"All the great women of litsra-
ture n art were brunettes."
This Is the formidable arraighment OF
facts with which Miss Edith Tal!aferro
rushes to the defense OF the brunette.
Or. Ellwood may declare that through
out the ages men have gazed with favor
upon the golden-haired woman, but can
he supper dis statement with proof?
"Of course / would not think OF con-
tradicting such a learned person az a
professor OF sociology smiled Miss
Taliaferro, but ] would like TO hear
him prove that men have always pre-
ferred blond ONE You would think
that II men really did have a predllec-
ton for blondes they would marry
them and fight for them and even oc-
casionally die for them. just as history
shows us men have so often done for
d~ark-haired women"
DO not men marry blondes?' I asked.
"Well.'' said Miss Tal!aferro, mis-
chievously. maybe. But there Is this
TO be said: I understand one of the rca-
sons men admire blond women is be-
cause their type H. so rare. Now. If all
she blondes were TO be married 1t
would appear reasonable to expect that.
in time. a head OF golden hair might
not be. such an unusual sight.'
Ii seemed curious enough to hear
littlc Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
standing before me and talking in
such a very grown up way. We were
in Miss Taliaferro's d-ressing-room at
the Belasco Theatre and she had Just
sllpped into the red cotton frock which
simultaneously shortcns her years and
her p~etticoats. Her dark hair was In
soft curls about her face-a face with
a sensitive. pointed chin. and great
eyes too young to he made sophisti-
Gated by either paint or powder.
Famed Beauties Were Dark.
,rr... Al, tho wo,ren famed for
.,o,r hso,.y really dark bairod7v
rasked.
"Most OF them were" replied
Miss sTaliaferro. "Truth COM
peis me to admit that a few OF
ther,-a very fsw--had red hair.
but really. now, II you stop and
think | believe you will remember thai
practically all the famous beauties were
brunettes. why, lear me. you can re-
,ra,.ber tbp good old nda beautle.
..t.na,, III, ,,x,u, vour mind There
'raa ,taaan,o poc,rier and Du Barry
- NNs "a h,ror1 an ro,son.
anu ''"f"1o' - ~,
able DOUBT anu even Aie'
OF Troy"
quite an array of pulchritude, but
scarcely what one might call a mora
a~ssemblage." I suggested.
.,oh wo1I" ,ontod Mis-, Italia ferro
~ 80 - 49,
n"'u.onS o"' l'".o' NV
awiulE Sood ueautllul "o'"e" wa" "Neu
quiet lives because they are not the sor'
o. women whose lives are passed doWH
IN history. But II YOU object to my
heantios we do no, hnvo 10 name then
80 nrouo tro sunoriorl,v NJ hrune,,e
" "''' . ns1tan,
"o'neh' ! 10 n't '"'n" : "ceu 80
to say mat an the eie'er women nave
had dark hair"
"All?" | persisted again.
D,rk woue, In Art
II you hs'S' : W.. 'nou,', ~,
OF them conceded MISS iaiaierro,
am so hurried now IT is rather difiicul'
for me to think, but in just an instant
I can recall names OF women who were
rrea, artists and who were marked
brunottos. There is George Eliot in lit,
cratwe and Rosa Bonlseur and Nine
In RUN who painted, and among tn,
women musicians our modern Cham,
ir,do
scr, IL .ucb nm cid comment hat
~ 90 make it.n continued Mrs
Taliaferro "but it really 10 true