THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1939.
Beauty and You
by PATRICIA LINDSAY
How To Pick A Beautiful Wife
beauty can be
Two of the world's foremost, year, convinces Mr. Prinz a girl's authorities on feminine beauty are character and diametrically opposed in their quickly judged by scrutinising her theories on how to pick a beautiful legs, far more easily than by feel- wife from the mass of beautiful ing the bumps on her head! women!
Says James Montgomery Flagg, the noted artist and illustrator:
"Take your prospective wife to a phrenologist." (A scientist who claims to read character and what- not from the shape of your head!) Says Leroy Prinz, famous dance director in Hollywood:
"Take your girl to the beach!" And then the two men decided to explain their theories. Lasting beauty, Flagg maintains, depends upon bone structure and true facial beauty does not exist without a shapely skull!
"Your bones," the artist ex- plains, “determine proportion. The spacing of the eyes, shape of the nose, depth and width of lips are determined largely by skull forma- tion. And structure of your limbs determines the grace of movement.
bodies are Women whose
well proportioned cannot help being graceful!"
com-
"Whether a girl's current beauty will be lasting is revealed pletely by her legs," Prinz states definitely. "If your girl has long knees, she is affectionate, consider- ate, loyal and dependable.
careless "If your girl is the type who will not keep up her beauty in later years, you will be able to judge by uneven, slipshod steps when she walks. There is no rhythm to her leg movement.
"Fleshy knees indicate that the girl will be too lazy to care for her face and figure once she has 'hooked her man!'
"A quarrelsome nature, coupled with a bad temper, is indicated by hard muscles which appear sharp- ly in the calves of her legs when they are flexed. Such a girl will quickly line her face and lose the sparkle in her eyes!" BOTH LIMITED IN JUDGMENT
Unfortunately, both these: men are limited or biased, in their James Montgomery Flagg thinks judgment. The artist looks at a Madelaine Carroll has one of the girl as a subject to paint, the heads he dance director looks at a pair of most perfectly formed has ever seen! But he did not say legs as part of a good-looking leg Neither looks at a girl her figure was the most beautiful chorus. he had ever seen! Perhaps wel for a prospective wife! are to draw the conclusion that if her head is perfect her entire body is perfectly proportioned.
MR. PRINZ TALKS Being in the show business, training many girls to dance each
Pretty JUNE LANG, epitomizes what a man calls “beautiful.”
a
a perfectly formed head and any if the physical beauty remained
not exquisite pair of legs who lacked intact if the girl was that something we call "soul," companion and an understanding "charm," "personality." What good female?
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