Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-03
Che TWELVE MOST BEAUTIFUL
WOMEN IN AMERICA a4~

West sos, just off the avenue.
Hour. 5:55. Appointment was at SIS.
l getting impatient, worried. Enter
] the efficient colored maid who has
been faithful to. her young mistress
for nearly 10 years to assure me Miss
Jams would be along presently; that
she was held up after the matinee by
Father Kelly, who sought her cooper
alton in eliminating from the bill a
feature which he believed to be de-
| structive to the morals of the young
boys whose welfare is his mission in
in life.
His name being Kelly and mine a
limerick, too, | resignedly waived my
rights to the next half hour and set
tied back to enjoy the interesting
apartment. which is done in pure Jap
enese-table, chairs, cushions, writing
desk, prints on the wall, everything
when in came the best loved actress
in America with her mother, frankly
a~pologetic for the delay. I don't mind
saying right here ] would wait an hour
| any time, even a half day. if necessary
for q duplicate hour spent as the next
afforded me.
Elsie Janis is in language colloauial
rather than Websterish a perfect
peach. Some sage said that the i'm
preston which every degree and modi-
f~ication of beauty makes on mankind
has as a fundamental rule their senti-
ment. While Elsie, measured accord
ing to exacting %rudiments of beauty,
| might not qualify as one of the great
est vet she has bestirred that funda-
mental rule in more hearts than any
| other woman in America. There are
many qualities of beauty she may take
q bow On. Her mouth, her smile, and
her rarely beautiful teeth, backed by
a personality which has no duplicate.
She exudes such an atmosphere of
b%uoyancy, good SPIRITS, health, enthu-
! siasm. youth rs to send you out into
the cold world wondering what you
were kicking about anyway. If that
isn't beauty. what is? Isn't a woman
to be numbered among the most beau
| tiful who at the most calalnitous mo-
ment known to history put a smile and
| courage into the hearts of hundreds of
thousands of men?
Compliments from Soldiers
Elsie" said a great general to her
at the time. when you first came to
France some one said you were more
valuable than a regiment; then some
one raised it to Il division, but l want
TO tell you that if you can give our men
the sort of happiness you are giving,
you are worth an army corps
Has any other American girl won
so fine Il compliment:
Or. the touching tribute paid her by
the stricken soldier with an arm gone
and a badly mutilated body: 1T might
have been worse. 1t might have been
my eyes and hen l wouldn't have had
Il sight of YOU
She is like a bracing, brilliant, sun
ny morning, i tonic for every kind OF
spirit, depressed, lonely, blase, happy,
or Indifferent. And what higher trib-
ute may you pay to beauty than that!
In the years I have been in this
work and meeting public persons L
have never left the presence of the in
terviewed with the sense Of warmth
and seher joy Of living that this Won
derful girl impaired.
She is wholesome, sensible and right.
And don't you think she is not an
optical enjoyment calculated TO tickle
the most experienced eye. She is.
She has expression. the most perfect
mouth and teeth, lovely brown hair and
big brown eyes with q laugh IN them,
than which nothing more flattering
may be said of eyes of any hue. And
she has a figure that any girl from 10
to 30 would give the world to own.
she is the Slim Princess on the
beauty stage. In q play of that name
she made one of her biggest hits. 1t is
one of her biggest hits on the beauty
stage.
Ought to Get a Laugh
What are you going to do with
me?" she queried.
When | told her | was going to list
her as one OF my favorites among l.
beautiful women. she roared: "Ho, no!
Ho, no. That's the funniest yet. I've
been accused Of everything-but that.
and now | live to be listed among the
great American daily dozen. That's
funny. Ought to get Il great laugh,
that ought"
"Well," I said, you are the young
looking thing"
"Ah, there you go" she said. Every
day someone comes along who says:
see, / saw you easily 50 years
ago, and you must have been % then,
at least [ made my first public APP
at the ripe old age of ,, and
was only II when | was starred. But
women who were 20 or % or moro then
come dragging a whole family along
nuG wonder why l. haven l. hpplieu LOT
admission to some old lady's home. In
the intervening years q woman could
get quite q family together.
but l let that go in one ear and out
the other. | don't see why ] should
.hink of getting old. and / don't intend
to. o, perhaps years hence Ill change
mind. In the meantime, there's a
.ot of the JOY o living to be picked
lp yet.
That's funny about my face" she
said. when l commented on there being
no lines. Il see girls four or five
ears younger than | with lines. I have
come to the conclusion it must be be
,ause / have kept the muscles exercised
faces. Seriously, though, now
what else could it be? it is reasonable
o believe the muscles Of the face have
o be exercised just as well as any part
If the body, isn't it? Outside of scrub
Ding it with soap and water, scrubbing
ill it shines, and rubbing cocoa butter
N it because | love the smell Of it.
don't give it any care.
Doesn't Use Grease Paint
mo, | never get messages. ] couldn't
lit still long enough for that. ] did 60
,nce and it struck me so silly the way
hey kept patting me and dabbing
Kings on. And then they kept telling
ne all the things | ought TO do for that
,oor old face of mine. | got discour-
Iged and took it right back home and
,ayau't Iot IL into a p,auaara r.,lou