Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-06
Adrienne Lachanp Turns the
Old Saying About and AS
SertS Handsome Does as
Handsome Is" ~.
BY MARGUERITE M. MARSHALL

NEW YORK, March 3.-"Beauty
is more than skin deep, although
sometimes it may be less-when it's
only paint and powder deep.
Real beauty means health, love,
character and success. ~ s.
Handsome does as handsome is
as well as the other way around.
"Be beautiful and you will be
happy-be happy and you will be
beautiful"
There you have Beauty's own
epigrams of beauty, the fair phrases
of an exceedingly fam, yuong wo-
man, Adrienne Lachamp. Since her
recent arrival in New York, Howard
Chandler Christy and other WE'LL
known artists have voted Miss La
champ a distinguished type of what
may be called international lowell
ness. OF British, French, Slavic and
Hungarian blood, brought up in
China, winning her Ph.D. at Hun
garian university, lecturing on
Beauty" and expressing it in every
country in Europe as well as in
the Far East, Miss Lacl1amp not
only is a product of cosmopolitan
charm, but. views and analyses it
with the eye and the experience of
the cosmopolite. b..
I found Miss Lachamp in her
studio at No. 14S West 47th street
young woman as exquisitely
rounded and proportional as a Tan
agra statuette. with ea-blue eyes
behind lashes silkiiy brown and curl
ing as the hair drawn back from
her round white forehead. Her nose
is chiseled Greek, her mouth subtly
and delicately expressive. but those
eyelashes are chief Of all her beau
ties.
TELL me about beauty" I said.
"Why do we all want it; how may
we get it, and in what does it con-
sist?'
Every Woman's Goal
Beauty is and should be the goal
toward which every woman strives,
and the danger is not that she will
work too hard for it, but that she
won't work hard enough" declared
Miss Lachamp. Real beauty is so
much more than skin deep, although
some of what you call beauty in
New York doesn't seem even as
deep as the skin-it doesn't go be
low the paint and powder. Real
beauty means beauty of the mind
and beauty of the soul, as well as
beauty of the body"
Then she made an observation
most gratifying to our local pride.
81 have been in all the capitals
Of the world" she said, land [
have never seen as many beauti-
full women as you have in New
York. Their figures are particu-
larly beautiful. The French woman,
for example, takes too little eXer-
else, and therefore is likely to be
fat and unsymmetrical. The Eng
lish woman exercises so much that
she often over develops her muscles,
from the viewpoint of beauty. The
America girl keeps to the happy
mean in the matter Of sports and
outdoor life, and as a consequence
her body, her limbs, her proportions,
her carriage are truly lovely.
Another factor which L believe
will make the American beauty Of
the future even an Improvement
on the beauty Of today is the ming
ling Of races which is taking place
here. Think of the American Wom-
an a hundred years from now with
IIlS WOIINlGI1u vi SNllIy llIC SSOSuCHS'o-
proportions of the races of north
Europe; the grace and suppleness
and rich brown eyes and hair Of
the Latin races; the touch of 1nyS-
terry, of spiritual magic, which is
the heritage of Slavic Women-ah,
but you may have such beauty as
the world never saw before!" eX-
claimed Miss Lachamp.
Too Much Artifice
"But you do not think beauty
merely a matter of hair and COM
plexion-particula if both are ar
tificial?" 7 suggested. -..'
Her lovely head moved in a gen.
tie but decisive negative.
81 do not wish to criticize" she
explained, but I have thought that
some women I have seen here in
your city depend too much on arti-
flee and on surface.
when a face is enameled to
stiff rigidity. how can so fluid a
thing as beauty-a thing Of nuance
and sparkle and variety-exist
there? When there is no light Of
intelligence behind the eyes. are
they not as dull and clouded and
uninteresting as stained glass win
doWs with no illumination behind?
| ITO be beautiful. a woma must
be well, first of all. arm color
bright eyes, rich hair, a symmet-
rical body are the by-products of
health. To be beautiful, woman
must cultivate her mind-or, at
best. she will be a heavily gilded
picture frame with no picture in
side. To be beautiful, a woman
must be kind and happy and of,
certain nobility. She must have
character" 80
Furthermore, this young phil
osopher of charm believes that
beauty and goodness form a sort
of interlocIing directorate.
Character Needed
! Handsome is as handsome
does" she quoted, but also, hand