The Washington times., 1923-04-21
CLEO.
TOOUTSH|NE
QUEEN
Capital Beauty to Be Picked
BY Times-HeraId Will Be
ShoWered With Honors.

No. Cleopatra wasn't one of
King Tut.s little playmates.
Compared to Tut, Cleo Is one OF
the moderns.
In Cleopatra's time the girls used
rouge, lipstick. powder. perfume.
and all of the accessories they
records show, used them but spar
ingly-she didn't need them.
The beauties who are taking part
in the keen competition to win the
honor Of portraying Cleopatra in
1.-THE coming Shrine session don't
need these accessories to beauty,
either. True gold needs no gliding.
Queries have been made as to
when Cleopatra lived. Cleo, when
still quite a young girl. you may
remember, met the then mighty
julius Caesar, one warm Friday
evening at about 7:13 o'clock, in
about the year a B. c.. Cleo took
advantage of the warm climate to
the utmost and thoroughly capti-
waited julius.
Anthony Fell Hard.
It was up in the 30's before she
| met and subjugated the Impression
able Anthony. Cleo met Anthony,
also on a warm summer evening,
on her magnificent silken canopied
royal barge on the Nile. Since then
a cloud of rosy romance has dwelt
upon the fair Siren of the Nile,
| Theirs was true love at first sight,
SO the story books tell. and they
loved until Anthony's sword and
| the well-known asp did them part.
| Cleo in those days must have
been a stunning beauty, the per-
lection of all the graces. Pascal,
the great French polemical writer,
sums up Cleo's perfection in this
succinct phrase: "Cleopatra's nose;
| had it been shorter, the whole as
| pect of the world would have been
altered"
| Cleo, however, didn't have to de-
pend entirely upon her beauty, for
as Plutarch says: ITO return ito
Cleopatra Plato admits four sorts
of flattery, but she had a tPous-
and"
| Judges Adamant.
The judges Of Washington's Cleo
patra, however, are not going to
be moved by four or by four thou.
sand kinds of flattery. They are all
sedate Shriners and are not going
| to be swayed by any consideration
but loneliness alone.
Then, if the luckiest girl in Wash
| ington has the other charms, in adj
dition to per perfect comeliness, SO
much the better.
The length of Cleo's nose may or
may not have altered the progress
of the world. The charms of some
means of altering her whole course
of life. From obscurity she may rise
overnight to fame. honor, and the
admiration Of a nation. Her face
will be known in every part of the
United States as that of the most
beautiful girl in the National Cap
ital and perhaps in the nation, since
Washington beauties have always
stood among the first in national
beauty contests.
HOnOrs and Gifts.
She will be showered with honors
and gifts which even the royal
Cleopatra Of twenty centuries ago
might have envied. Cleopatra
never had a miniature of herself
done on ivory-or If she did there
is no trace of it. Washington s
Cleo will have one presented her
by a noted artist. The Cleopatra
of old was famed for her mag
nificent banquets. She never knew
any which will be more brilliant
than those at which Washington s
Cleopatra will reign. She never
but then, what's the use? No
girl in the history of the world
ever received more honors or
privileges than some Washington
girl Is destined to receive.
II you are going to be that girl
you had better call today at The