Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

I'M part of women there has evolved
~ new and distinctive style in
feminine beauty-one that is the
result not only of women's more active ana
healthful living but also of their thinking and
accomplishments in many fields, according TO
no less an authority than Harrison Fisher, VINO
has drawn, sketched posed and painted more
lovely ladies during the last Is years than any
other man on the face of the globe.
This famed painter and illustrator of beauti-
full women, who with bold, vigorous and appeal
ing strokes of pen and brush has been recording
loneliness of face and form for almost three
decades and who was the first to pose them In
"close -up"-the head and face alone-has
gained some very definite ideas as to what really
constitutes feminine beauty. During this time
thousands of women have posed for him. He
has long since lost count. But from all sec
tons and lands they have come and from all
stations of life-rich and poor high and low,
women famous and women unknown, but always
women beautiful.
YES fashions in women do change, and
1912 model, with its pompadour and ears, amt
what she used to be- chuckled this genial and
colorful artist as he turned from an unfinished
portrait on an easel in his magnihcently fur
nished studio apartment overlooking Central
Park New York City, and handed the writer
an old scfapbook of some of his ladies OF yes
terday.
THIS big, outstanding, athletic-looking wielder
of the pen and brush continued with his
comparisons of the satin-clad, lace-swathed.
diamond-tiaraed beauties of yesterday with the
happy buoyant, out-of-doors girls of today
at makes no difference" said Mr. Fisher,
whether she be blonde or brunette or whether
her zeSt and buoyancy be the result OF golf,
tennis, basket ball, skating, swimming, riding,
wa1king or all. The big requirement is that
her face radiate health. Her dress may be very
htrfh he brio
lir~
Women are rapidly developing stronger
characters. Note the marked change in the
contour of the face 1t is far more distinct
than it used to be. The face of the girl Of
yesterday a succession of ripples and curves
and dimpes We were not sure of where it
b.gan and where it ended. 1t was not strongly
marked, but soft, nebulous and indeterminate
as the Milky Way. The face of the girl of
To-Day IS an uncompromising frame with less
flesh and more flrmness, no dimples but many
noble lines. 1t is more of the square face, GER
tainly not the top or oval shape.
IN place of the retreating forehead that
marked the delicate feminine type of yesterday
we have today the forehead that is straight
and ciiffke above the eyebrows And instead
OF the little dimpled chin, formerly considered
beautiful has come the chin strong, dfiant and
pro .rudng.
."Che nose too has changed 1t is shorter
than the beak we used to look for in beautiful
face. 1t is shorter and stronger and with no
resemblance to the long, repellant nose which
some profess to like
big pop eyes, Of course are out of fashion
Instead eyes are deeper set and look smaller,
but reflect more intelligence. They no longer
stare you out of countenance In fact today
we seldom the big calf eyes that used to
look at us out of weak faces-eyes that looked
like heavy blue imitation china and meant as
little"
RUT the greatest and most apparent change
- in feminine beauty, according to Mr.. Fisher,
is the mouth, which he says is lovelier today
than ever before. He is glad that the small
mouth OF yesterday has given way to one of
frmer lines.
Since women have grown more reasonable
and less willful,' said the artist smiling, 1.-The
pouting mouth has gone. The Cupids bow that
has been admired for thousands of years is still
with us, but its lines, too, are much firmer
The mouth Of today seems better proportioned