The Washington times., 1922-05-23
j. s. IS NURSERY.
Of BEAUTY, SAYS.
ITALIAN COUNT.
Most Graceful, Best Dressed
Women in World, Caracciolo
Declares.
BY WILI.ENE TAYLOR.
BY COSMOPOLITAN News Service.

NEW YORK, May .-'Amerlca
is a nursery OF beautiful women"
says Count Mario Caracciolo. ex-dip.
lomat. former soldier. a traveller. and
now a movie hero. They are the
most graceful women in the world
and the best dressed. They can con
verse on any subject, and dance
they are divlne!"
There you are, daughters OF the
great melting pot. and these conCeits
come from an honest TO goodness
count, verified by Chevalier Rochira,
acting consulate general OF the
Italian consulate here. Under the
assumed name of Mario Carrillo. he
had entered the movies TO make film
acting his lie work and ''Oh, still
you humping hearts" he looks al
most like Valentino, except he's big
ger and his hair Is greying at the
temples he Is the son OF the Duke
OF Mellto and six feet four.
There are no fifty-fifty beauties
in America" he says. Women here
are not like the women Of Italy. OF
France, OF Egypt, nor any country
where I've been. Here you do not
see q womsn OF whom you can say
oh, she'n do, or she's fair because
they are notiCeably homely. or they
are completely lovely. and will tell
you that they are nearly all lovely.
Married An American.
Count CaraCciolo means what he
says. He married an American girl,
Miss Miriam Crosby. daughter OF Os
car Crosby, American commissioner
In Belgium. who was assistant sec
retary Of the treasury under McAdoo.
This polite young man was asked
whether he thought American WON
en- were good dancers. since 1t was
that the other young
italian movie hero. Rudolfo Ealen'
tino had said that they were not
good dancers.
II know of no other country where
society women are better dancers
than here. l do not say specially
dancers, for ! am not an authority
there, but as a ballroom dancer
can say that the American women
excel in graceful dancing.
The count happens TO be an au.
thority on dancing, having appeared
in the ball rooms of many countries
American women are much supe-
riOr to American men in social per
sonallty," Count CarraCciolo says.
The Amer lcan man Is the victim OF
his duty. He works all the time ana
h ehas hardly an opportunity 10
develop his social faculties. On the
l.. a
to do and they develop into brilliant
social companions. Don't let people
tell you that the European women
are wittieer than the American.
Absorbs Paris Culture.
THE newspapers say your women
go to Paris to shop. Well. she doesn't
go only to shop; she goes 10 learn
and she absorbs the European cul'
ture for later social intercourse. She
dresses in simple becoming styles
and above all else. they always look
clean"
Baron Alberto Fassini, owner OF
Cines, the big Italian motion PIC
ture company which made quo
Vadis" and "Cabiria," offered Count
Carracciolo a place as leading man
but he was called away with MS
regiment to East Africa. There as
district commissioner and as pri.
vate secretary to the governor OF
he lived several years
fighting Arabs and Turks.
He was sent to the Austrian
front when the World War broke
out. Afterwards he entered the dip
lomatic service. was sent as mill
tary attache to Spain, and later In
the same capacity to Washington:
Finally the count was introduced
TO Norma Talmadge through
mutual friend. DIR. Orestes Ferrara'
Cuban millionaire, who asked the
count TO give Miss Talmadge let
ters of introduction TO friends In
Italy. Miss Talmadge told her
husband, Joeph SchenCk, that Count
Carracciolo would make a wonder
ful lead in the movies, and when
he heard it, he says 1t seemed the
elimination of all his dreams. He
had been writing poems and short
stories for the Italo-America Re
view. He now Is under contract
with Pyramid Pictures,