The New York herald., 1922-11-04
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt and Marion
Davies i'm Book Of Fair
Women.

Thirty-two women have been select
ed from all femininity by = o. Hoppe.
the English photographer, as leading
their sex In beauty. Five of them are
Americans or were so born. Four OF
them are English. and for the rest Of
the women Mr.. Hoppe draws upon
twenty-three countries and races. The
photographer explains that this COM
p.lation OF pulchritude. which he calls
''The Book of Fair Women" repre-
sents twenty years of photography.
OF course with all the women thore
are in the world and all the influence
ti,cy can bring 10 bear. there is bound
to be much controversy. But Mr..
Hoppe has made his selections and
the publishers say that he stands by
them. \ digest of the volume aud the
rames of the women was issued yes
icrday by the American publisher, AL
fred \. Knopf.
The American women are Mrs. Lydg
Hoyt. of New York city: Lady Lavery.
Viscountess Maidstone. Malvina Long
fellow and Marion Davies. The Eng
lsh beauties are Hebe, Lady Diana
Duff Cooper, Gladys Cooper and Kath-
leen Martyr. Most OF these women are
well known.
For example, everybody who follows
the fortunes of the stage knows that
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt stepped out of the
inner circles of metropolitan society TO
become a screen artist and later TO play
In the legitimate. The possibility of
contesting Mrs. Hoyt's right to be in
Mr. Hopes book IL somewhat remote.
Lady Iavery was Miss Hazel Martyr.
daughter OF Edward Jenner Martyr OF
Chicaeo. She is the wife OF Sir John
Lavery. an Irish portrait painter and
Royal academcian.
The Viscountess Maidstone was Mar
garetta Drexel. only daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel of Phila-
delphia She married Viscount Maid
stone in 1910 AS in the case OF Lady
Lavery, she has repeatedly been Sc
lected as one of the really beautiful
women in England. Malvina Longfel-
low started her career as a professional
beauty I'm the atelers OF New York
when she was known by her real name.
Malyina Langfelder. She appeared in
various musical comedies In America.
migrated to London. where she created
n Juror hy her extraordinary charm
of face and figure, and where she was
married to Albert Carter of Mayfair.
Marion Davies is well known as mo-
ton picture actress
OF the English women. Hebe Is one
~ Great Rritains $ celebrated stage beau
tics Lady Diana Duff-Cooper Is Lady
Diana Manners. daughter Of the Duke
and Duchess Of Rutland Like Mrs.
Jovt she stepped from society into the
n,oyies Gladys Cooper, British ac-
tress of renown. was married to Her
bert John Buckmaster son OF Lord
Buckmaster. OF her Sir Philip-Jones.
the artist. said:
"she is the most perfect type of pure.
oolen hare Anglo-Saxon loveliness that
Con- no conceived. No one can be more
beautiful than that
Kathleen Martyr, too, is an actress
with champions TO proclaim her the most
beautiful OF all women.
From fame and obscurity come Mr..
tJonnes other selections. In China he
selects Mrs. VI Kyuin Wellington Koo,
vy,fe OF the Chinese Minister to Great
britain. She is quite well known to
America, in as much as her husband was
formerly Minister In Washington. Dur
ing the Arms Limitation Conference Il
was said that she was the best dressed
woman in the American capital.
Representing the beauty OF the red
Indian women Is Princess White Deer.
great granddaughter Of Chief Running