San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
Women Spoil Their Natural Beauty by Initiating Other
Women's Charms Originality Is the Cardinal Charm,
Says Florenz Ziesfeld, Jr, and He Ought to Know.
By FIORHN8 KID0FMD

By FL0HHN8 1D0FHD
It's amazing b ~ how fsw women
there are in ths world who have faces
Of their own.
That's because, in faess a. IN other
things, the majority Of women follow
the herd. They don't realize that
current styles in expressions don't
necessarily suit them, and %, when
it's the fashion to look bored, 10 have
a Cupids bow mouth that Is painted
bright scarlet, to look distract, they
all follow the fad.
Walk up the boulevard IN any town
any afternoon. See the women who
have Just come from their boudoirs,
who for the moment at least repre-
sent their idea of what they want to
look like. You'll find very few OF
them who have dared 20 follow the
style In faces that should be theirs.
You can pick out those who have
chosen TO look like some successful
actress, or some famous beauty. Let
4 woman who il much In the public
eve appear with hsr hair drawn back
from her face, long earrings dangling
from her ears her mouth dropping,
her face ivory white. Perhaps that's
the style that suits her-but half the
women who adopt Il are mere walking
caricatures Of her, and cartoons Of
Themselves.
The beauty 10 the woman who does
not spoil her looks BY conforming TOO
closely to custom.
In my work producing big musical
shows and the Ziegfeld Follies, I am
constantly on the look out for girls
who have originality, and nowhere is
this more apparent than IN their
faces. No matter how pretty q girl
may naturally be, Il she comes to ap-
ply for work with her face made up
- that she thinks it's going 10 look
pretty, I'm likely b pass her By for
someone else whose looks have more
personality.
Let's suppose that You have blue
eyes, yellow hair, pretty features.
Well, you may belong to any one Of
half a dozen different types. Unless
you find out where you belong, you're
going to have no more distinction than
do those long strings of paper dolls
that can be cut out, fifteen or twenty
at a time. You'll be pretty, perhaps,
but you won't BE- q beauty. Your
beauty won't be one hundred per cent
efficient, II it's to be put into com
mercial terms.
If you were In New York, I'd say
to you: go about town a bit, to the
theaters and restaurants and clubs
where beautiful women can be seen.
Study them. Study the blondes; see
how they differ. Perhaps there'll be
one who cunningly emphasizes her
beauty by the colors she uses in
dressing. II you're her type, see how
she does 1t. Try 1t at home"
There Are Blondes-and Blondes!
She may be a blonde of the type
that is always very young looking,
habyish in expression, sweet, help.
pS looking. All right. Probably
she'll look her best in soft colors-
IN blue, pink; in simply made frocks,
dig, noppy hats. Beginning with that
assumption, the girl can Develop some
originality Of appearance by .mpha-
sizing her type. This won't make for
artificiality, as you might think, be-
cause as a usual thing a woman ma
turally fits into her type. Its man.
hers, its language, its habits o.
tiought, come to her easily. 1t is
emily when she tries to ape someone
else that she becomes artificial.
Perhaps she's a gray-eyed blonde,