The Washington herald., 1917-01-07
"Intoxication' in Experience"
Gets "Jag" off Rare Perfume
Miss Margot Williams Never
Tasted Real Liquor; Points
to Her Pretty Teeth as
Alibi.

Nueian slaves searching the African
| forests for the rarest and most perfect
specimens of ivory never kound anything
half so beautiful, so cleaning, and %
brilliant, as the sparkling white teeth OF
Miss Margot Williams. who plays In
the Belasco Theater Monday, January Is.
For this girl, although cast for the role
of the personihcation OF wine, has never
permitted alcohol to touch her pearly
teeth, and as a result she has the most
perfect set known to the dental profess
sion.
Attention was called to these remark
able teeth when the representative of a
grape concern actually had the teeth ex-
amined by experts, and after not a
single flaw had been found in any of
the thirty-two ivories. offered the sum
of 5000 II the actress would sell the
teeth outright to be used as a permanent
exhibition of the value of a grape Juice
beverage. She refused.
Imagine me using a set of false teeth
at my age" declared the actress in
dignantly. 'I am not yet ready to enter
the senile class. We have only one life
to live, and only one set of teeth to
eat with. and I am going to hold on
| to the originals and not use store teeth.
How did I keep them in such perfect
condition? Well, 1 have refrained from
I using all the different patent medicine
preparations. Only plain powdered chalk
without any chemical constituent, is used
to cleanse my teeth. 1 always cleanse
them after each meal And the most
important thing is that I have never
fol ~ apytbfno thar
grape juice.
Physicians and dentists will tell you
| that alcohol eats away the enamel OF
the teeth and makes them soft. I can re-
member in my school days of softening
a bone or an egg by a solution OF
vinegar. Much the same chemical action
takes place if one permits the teeth to
become too well acquainted with alcohol.
If you will notice the teeth of typical
drunkard you will flnd-so I have been
| told, cs my acquaintance with drunkards
is necessarily imited-that the teeth are
| in a yer bad condition.
when I was offered the sum Of 5000
to sell my teeth so that this grape Juice
company could use them as an adver-
tisement, I thought the whole thing a
Joke at first, but the agent assured me
the offer was on the level and that 1
might as we'll use the money and buy a
set Oh ldlsc lCsth ioi dOoub @iVS' Iet n.y.
thank you, I may have to use false teeth
later in life, but not yet
And II Is true that you have never
taken a drink" asked the interviewer.
Absolutely" replied fair Intoxication.
Then how do you so successfully sim
ulate intoxication on the stage?
"I use a rare old perfume, combina-
tion OF ambergris and white violets,
which was used in the Oriental countries
for hundreds of years." replied Miss
Williams dreamily. 'T bought some of
this when was in Constantinople two
years ago, making a tour of the world
with my father. 1t exudes a rare subtle
odor; kind of incense. 1t thrills me, II
intoxicates me. l have a spray with which
this delicate perfume is showered upon
me just before 1 go upon the stage in
Experience 1t lifts me above the
earth; I have all my senses, but I seem
to be floating on liquid music. And 80
go on and act Intoxication, and every
one out front probably thinks that have
really been drinking champagne. But 1t
is not so; Intoxication in Experience
never takes drink"