San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-01
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not only upon her, but upon those
with whom she came in contact,
so did the fatal beauty of miss
Bronx" of New York - Helen
Goebbel-play havoc with the lives
of at least two other people.
1t was at New York beauty
contest that Miss Goebbel received
the prize for being the most beau
tiful girl in her borough. At that
contest the New York National
League baseball club, the Giants,
attended in body.
Among them was Hugh Nc
Quillan, a leading pitcher. He
went, saw and was conquered
at least so Mrs. McQuillan charges,
and so, of course, Miss Goebbel
denies.
At any rate, McQuillan began to
forget his career. He "broke
training" as ball players term the
process of having a good time. He
was fined $500 by the manager of
the team, the famous John Nc
Graw, for attending merry party
at a Long Island road house. An
other time he lost a $4,000 bonus
by his absence from the field on a
day when he was to pitch crucial
game. He left his wife and home.
Then he was expelled from the
team-l0st his livelihood as a pro-
fessional baseball player and stands
a good chance of being ruled out
of the big leagues. And. Mrs. Nc
Quillan brought suit for divorce.
As for Miss Goebbel, rightly
or wrongly, her future was marred,
McQuillan's career wrecked, Mrs.
McQuillan's home and happiness
wrecked-the curse of the prize
beauty took heavy toll that time.
Not so tragic as some of the
other affairs, but unhappy and con-
sistent with the curse, was the his
tory of Dorothy Knapp, after she
won the titles, "Most Beautiful
Follies Girl" and american
Venus"
Like Julia Bruins, Dorothy
Knapp was picked as the ideal
model by the well-known artist,
Howard Chandler Christy, and her
likeness appeared on countless
magazine covers.
Now Mr.. Christy's studio is the
rendezvous for all manner of
smart and cultivated and fashion
able people, and as she posed for
him, Dorothy Knapp saw and heard
things new to her, and absorbed
a point of view and an outlook
on life quite foreign to the dress
ing rooms of a musical comedy
chorus. She became ambitious.
The gaucheries of a show-girl-
even a frst-water Broadway show
girl-became abhorrent to her In
the vernacular, she came to know
"class" when she saw it, and she
wanted class for herself.
In addition to being a sort of
salon for some of the smart set of
New York, Mr.. Christy's studio is
also noted for being the hunting
ground of Cupid. Many happy
romances have begun there.
And romance began there for
Dorothy Knapp. Posing there, she
met young Fahner Christy,
nephew of Mr.. Christy, and a
promising young man in the true
sense of the word. In him Dorothy
Knapp beheld real "class."
Quickly that romance budded.
Their engagement was announced.
And then, suddenly, without much
warning the engagement was
broken.
Why? Well, it was never def
nitely explained. How could it be?
There was nothing against either
of the young people. Apparently
the curse of the prize beauty had
mysteriously interviewed.
1t is not only to the prize win
ners that the curse seems to ex-
tend. Beauty contests result in
heartaches and worse to contes-
tants who are not prize winners.
Thus it was that beautiful Ann
Hyatt threatened to bring suit
when the jury awarded the prize
to Dorothy Knapp, charging dis
elimination on the part of the
judges. And so did Mrs. Earle
Liederman, "Miss Alaska" the
wife of the famous physical cul-
ture expert, when another beauty
was preferred over her at Allan
tice City.
The rules of the contest stated,
it is said, that no contestant must
be married. 1t was on that pre-
text that the judges rejected Mrs.
Liederman. Yet some of the other
contestants were. married, she