White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-17
QUEENS OF THIS AND
THAT RULE IN PARIS
Beauty Contests Reveal but
Little Beauty.


international beauty contests the Gal
weston boosters have revived dying
custom Of electing queens that is
spreading until 1t seems likely that
everybody but the bearded lady and
the horse-face girl will be elected
beauty queen Of something or other.
The very latest is Mile. Yvonne De-
mousser, who was elected queen Of
the tripe strippers at the tripe strip
pers' annual ball.
The queen of tobacco sells bad ci-
CARS at drafty counter. She used
to be moe girl; but since her coro-
nation she seldom gets her hands free
from her lipstick and mirror. and her
hauteur Is such that customers feel
ms If they should salaam and bump
their heads on the tiled floor when
che deals out short change.
Queens Of Everything.
Queens of Montmartre, queens OF
Montparnassee, queens of each of the
twenty wards Of the city. queens OF
the artists models, queens of the man
neuuins, queens of the salesglrls,
queens of the trolley conductors.
queens of the mattresses, laundresses.
and window washers jostle each other
In the illustrated papers. Recently
there was crowned "queen of the
Corsicans of Paris" Mile. Simone
Ferrari was elected, crowned, robed in
fake ermine, surrounded by maids Of
honor, and solemnly enthroned.
There are only eighty-six other "de-
partments" OF France with colonies
In Paris, each of which will have TO
elect its queen or be regarded ms not
imbued with proper regional pride.
A queen of the concierges (janitors)
was elected month ago.
Nor is Paris alone afflicted with the
beauty-queen rash. A "wurst queen"
was elected in Berlin to the thump-
Ing of foaming stems.
The Galveston beauty show, which
Is responsible for most of this, pro-
duced q pretty poor lot of European
beauty queens this year. Maurice de
Walleffe, the man who last year tried
to make knee dress suits what the
we'll dressed man will wear, secuted
all over Europe supervising the cleo.
lions. But this is one of the things
that they do not do so we'll In Europe.
They are not so democratic and not
SO thorough about 1t as in the United
States.
Girls who are sure Of their beauty
scorn to place 1t in doubt by Compel
ing to prove it. Furthermore, the GUS
tom of Judging the candidates In bath
ing suits has not yet won Its way
over here. 1t shocks European the
cries Of modesty. The candidates are
few and they are judged on their faces
and ankles.
When the lot of them came to Paris
from Poland, Rumania, Greece, Hun.
gary, Germany, Holland Italy. Spain
and other countries, sixteen in oil, II
was appalling to see how much alike
they looked and how really empty
was their so-caled beauty.
Has Double Chin.
The juries from one end of Europe
to the other seemed to have ruled out
all candidates representing the really
Individual qualities of their various
races. The fascinating differences In
type due to centuries of race-breeding
were all discarded in favor Of the more
vapid variety of standardized Holly
wood prettiness.
The German girl looked more
French than the French girl and the
Hungarian girl more French than
either, and they all, with the excep-
ton of Miss Greece, who has double
chin, looked like underdone American
fappers
BY the time they had been fed
through a quantity production hair
dressing parlor they had lost what
little racial individuality they brought
with them.
A real esthetic opportunity was
missed. Any traveller knows thut Eu
ropean races produced distinct types
Of beauty, each lovely In Its way. quite
distinct from the other and impreg.
mated with the history of the races
from which they come.
A typical beauty of Bucharest has
the profile of the heads on old R0.
man coins and is living witness to
the fact that the Roman empire once
had an important and pleasant colony
there on the army road to Byzantium
e.. =
Galveston, tells nothing Of this.
A real Hungarian beauty must have
"Reminiscences Of Asia in her eyes
but Miss Hungary" might be Kan.
sas City high school girl.
A genuine Polish type can have the
black hair, black eyes, white skin
smooth forehead and plenty Of Slavic
strain in her nose and cheekhones and
still he enhancing lovely. But miss