The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-15
MAKING c IRL s
BEAUTIFUL
HER JOB
Washington Dramatic Coach
Claims She Knows Secret
of the Ages.

Il can make plain girls beautl-
This was the startling state
ment made today by Genevieve
Bond, stage director and dramatic
coach of the Westinghouse,
Washington's own popular opera
company, which engages only To-
cal talent and produces profess
sional opera under the baton and
management Of sRollin Bond.
"No, do not run a beauty par
lor," averred Genevieve Bond.
"You see, i don't commence my
work on the surface. Every wom-
an is incipiently beautiful-at
least, she possesses elements of
beauty which may be developed.
This statement is hard to accept,
II admit, in view Of a certain prev
alence Of LONELINESS.
One Girls Story.
I'VE are very particular about
the girls singing with the Wash.
ingtonians' being beautiful. When
they make application for member
ship we try their voices first, of
course, This point being satisfac-
tory. we next hold consultation,
providing the girl is not already
beautiful, to decide whether she
can be developed into a beauty.
= II will tell you a story about a
young girl who found place among
our singers because Of her strong
voice. Elizabeth was only four
oh
fore, and a gorgeous wealth of
auburn hair brushed straight back
and hanging in a thick braid.
When would be guiding the other
girls through their maneuvers.
Elizabeth would stand, round
shouldered, stomach hoisted, open
mouthed, dropping jawed. In vain I
would call her to attention, try to
correct her carriage. pose, express
sion. etc.
DRESS rehearsal came. and i
feared / had before me the unhap-
by duty of telling the child she
would not do looked about for
her, but could not find her. In
stead, saw, sitting on the corner
of g. table, a very beautiful young
woman. with a wealth OF gorgeous
hair piled artistically on her head,
face alight, eyes agloW. with a
number of admirers buzzing about
her. Ny labor and instructions had
at last borne fruit. for this was
Elizabeth.
Not by Make. Up.
Yes land there are a number of
very beautiful young singers in this
city who have burst into full-bloom
beauty, gained poise, grace, ele-
gance with which to appear before
the public. while studying I'm our
group. many Of them having been
promoted from the chorus. How
is 1t done?' No indeed, not only through
makeup. That is but small part Of
the, battle although, of course. a
very important part.
First, / study my girl. / talk
to her, and become thoroughly &C.
quainted. / draw her out.
praise her-perhaps flatter her q
little. Nothing makes a girl bloom
more quickly. l make careless
suggestions about details of her
costume, suggest what would be
most becoming. I toy with her
hair, pull it into becoming shape,
and perhaps get her to wave it.,
and care for it in a way to bring
out the sheen.
II talk to her with animation,
induce her to express herself, and
let out, the light. Of course my
training and constant command of
facial expression with my private
pupils and in the opera work has
cultivated facial habits which,
when the girls initiate them
which find they do--furnish addi-
tionaI means to let out the light
and beauty within.
THE change takes place grad
ually. The girl finds herself con-
stantly adding to her possibility
Of expression-the possibility of ex-
pressing an ever-increasing variety
of emotion, thought and feeling,
and beauty finds its own in this
greater freedom. But first and
most important is to make the
girls love mel have got to win
them first, and I win them by low.
ing them-who could help loving
them? Did you see '"The Star
Spangled Banner" float in the
patriotic pageant at the Shrine
convention? If you did, you saw
rare collection not only of beau
tiful girls, but sweet. human, Iowa
BILE girls peeping large-eyed from
under their Colonial wigs and big
voices"
A. A. AspinWalI Left $41 1873.