Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-16

Los Angeles, Cal.-(Special Core
spondence).-By artists, by beautiful
women Of her own profession and out
of it, by art critics, by judges Of thirty
beauty contests, by famous author, by
a legitimate stage beauty, by popular
vote of the layman, Miss katherine
Macdonald has been acclaimed the
most beautiful woman in America, and
consequently the most beautiful wom-
an in the world.
How does this lovely screen star.
whose photograph tells her she is
beautiful beyond compare, whose mir
ror reflects it, and who perhaps has re-
ceived more adulation, spoken and 81
lent, than any other living girl. pre-
serve her beauty? How did she ac-
quire it? And what Is she doing to
prolong the age of her present fame ?
Has she some mystic potion concoct-
ed out Of the essence of the moonbeam,
the rays of the sunbeam, and the per-
fume of the rose, mayhap?
II Means SeIf-DeniaI.
Not bit of it! She is not that kind
of beauty at all. She is neither ex-
otic nor ephemeral.
She is the American girl, modern,
athletic, womanly, intensely sane, and
practical in her views on hygiene and
beauty, realizing the responsibility her
fame, as the great American beauty,
has been thrust upon her. And who
shall say it Is the most enviable of po-
sitions?
Lillian Russell is credited with hav-
ing many times decried the exacting
demands Of one placed above her fell
low women as more beautiful. 1t
means a lifetime Of infinite pains and
self-denial to live up to the demands
of the exalted position. Imagination
conjures up in advance a vision which
no reality can live up to, supremely
lovely as it may be, and these envied
luminaries are forever standing in the
presence of a critic who compares the
flesh and blood creature to the image
Of his mind, whereas you and I are
approached in a tolerant and reason
ably generous mood.
Not until one has passed that glo-
rious, carefree early youth-by that I
mean the teens and early twenties-
when the age itself is it's own best
beauty doctor, does a woman rarely get
down seriously to the matter Of retain
INK her beauty. The closer she gets
to the thirties and the thirties plus the
more she begins to realize number
of things that have to do with beauty
preservation.
Chose the Harder Way.
Perhaps Miss Macdonald is just
little wiser than the average girl. 1t
may have been the force of circum-
stances, which accidentally brought her
into the limelfght in her first picture
four years ago and Immediately pro-
claimed her a great beauty, that made,
her begin to consider earnestly the
problems of pulchritude at an earlier
age than most women. She was then
in her early twenties. She had seen
other fair buds come out, bloom for a
season or two, and pass on to the
Limbo to which these flowers of yes
terday depart. Being just the little
wiser, she recognized then that a girl
cannot work by day and play by night,
every day and every night. without
waking up to find herself floundering
around in the aforesaid Limbo
II love to dance as much as any
girl and to party" she said, "but I
have had to work almost steadily
every day since I got into pictures
from 8 in the morning until 8 at night
and / saw It was physical impossi-
bility to do both, 80 the dancing and
partyins had to be reduced to the
minimum"
Scores oa HeredIty.
Miss Macdonald comes OF 4 stock Of
! l.uShinxiy u declares, never die. By way
! az substantiating her claim, be it
known that q granduncle, James c..
! Aenew OF Wheeling, w. Va, 84, broke
his leg and lived to step blithelv out of