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CAN YOU

NAME

GREAT WOMEN

...or even 12?

LWAYS zestful

for a

woman

But

world prestige. Others list ffm- stars. Runners-up are Betty Grable and Olivia de Havilland, the only two women in movies carning more than *:50,000

of great year.

when she

Do women pull thing in the Theatre? in the past, such

debating points, mem- gifts. bers of the Women's went to the royal palute for Overseas Prem Club in New her investiture na Minister nctresses 45 Sarah Bernhardt York recently agreed to in a shabby grey sweater and Eleanora Duso were great in draw up a check-list of the and sports skirt, one could the grand tradition, Who Tanks,

their modem equivalent? world's 25 greatest women, not but draw comparisons as

Lawrence? Yvetle

intending to publish profiles with another woman who Gertrude

Gullbert? Tallulah Bankhead?

of their selections in forthcoming book.

Dorothy Thompson has been cited to write about Mrs

the once ruled Rumania, glamorous red-haired Magda Lupescu, now wife of ex- King Carol.

Mme

Lynn Fontaune?

Twelve years ago, a writer of my acquaintance jsted 12 other women as 'world tops.' He in-

cluded Greta Garbo, Mme Eleanor Roosevelt. Further, one must add to this

the pale, frail Litvinov, the notorious Countess Pearl Buck should surely women's list

Edda Cinno, Hungary's Mr. looking

Curie-Joillet,

duinpy Frau Horthy and even deal with Madame Chiang

Scholtz-Klink, leader of the Kai-shek, who may yet

Hitler's muidens. But where come to new prominence in

are they how? Were women the Far East. Even at 83,

achievements notching higher Queen Mary is an obvious

they are choice as one of the greatest women of Britain.

But who next?

IBY EDWARD

G.

GRANT

in the today?

1930's then

FEW HEADLINES

or

women

25

Today thousands of children-- at one time potential cripples for life-owe their straight

limbs to her, Like Sister Eliza

beth Kenny, the nurse from the Australion bush who developed now treatments for the after- math of Infantile paralysis, she

has a vision of childhood.

growing up strong and beauti- ful.

I include #11 these three women on my list of 12. And the others? In this article, ro far. I have mentioned over 30. Who would you choose?

A LOVELY SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD'

S

The inspiration,

light, and life

of an artist

by PETER

DACRE

HE will always bo re- £1,000 for Preston'a -muni- membered ገጾ The cipal art gallery. Another,

Girl In the Yellow in black, is at Dundee. Dress." In the painting by What was this woman her husband, James Gunn,

like, who through the her face acemed to hold all

genius of her husband will the dignity and beauty in

be admired as long as paint the world.

clings to canvas?

When it appeared in 1944 it caught the public's heart- "For me," says James | strings. Pauline Gunn was Gunn, she was, the most called "the modern Mous eminently paintable and Lisa."

beautiful woman I havo Now she will be painted over known. There was no more. In the words of something clusive about her D. B. Wyndham Lewis, who which I was always striving wrote a tribute to her, "n to get. I never got it. gay and lovely spirit has "I was once asked tho returned to God."

Hecret of Pauline in tho Yollow Dress. I said it was wor weariness and clothing coupone the dress was rather voluminous, you these simple know.

I knew it had some BEHIND

words is the story of a thing, but I still don't know noble, beautiful woman who what it is." never realised the fame she had won and who struggled to hide the accret of an in- curable illness.

Fame unheeded

Gunn

Picture stays

of the many

Pauline IN the dining room of the paintings by James

Gunas' house at Hamp the public has seen twelve. stead is another painting, In the Yellow "Venetian Souvenir," which "Pauline Dress"

bought for the family this is the

Was

Whatever became of-?

CHAPMAN PINCHER this week takes over a now-famous Saturday Telegraph feature

THEN

Drawing up their 25, the

HERE are

an American now no newswomen have found it

flyers nt stratosphere levels,

professor announced difficult to decide between,

none attempting 680 mph speed

that he had adopted Wilhelmina

Juliano, and

records

today's marathon

a baby chimpanzee and was long-distance fights. Surveying respectively the retired and

to be no bringing it up under exactly reigning Queens of the daughter of the discoverer of the arts, there seem Netherlands. In Britain, radium, who has herself found women composer of the cailbre the same conditions as his of Dame Ethel Smythe, no young, ten-months-old son just to new methods of artificially pro- needless to Bay, il. is

ducing radio-activity and is a women artists to emulate Dame invidious to discuss the world scientist in her own right. Laura Knight. In the wide field see how they compared men- uf literature, one still lists tally, it made big news. Queen or Princess Eliza-

Rebecen West and perhaps That was 19 years ago. beth. Perhaps Princess There is also the Indomitable Bizabeth Bowen. Who else of Margaret may rank as a Daisy Bates, now In her 88th truly front rank? protagonist of the future.

year. Nearly GO years have jased since she first visited Australin

the

More than

leading

Now reader J. I. Eagle wants to know what hap- 30 years after pened. "Did the human in- for her health and women gained the vote, Reviewing women int becam

mterested in

thefant Anish up as America's medical and scientific sport, the ladies unanimous aborigines. Living alone with ly selected the redoubtable them in a tent in the desert, re-discoveries are still made in a leading steeplejack and did worlu It newspapers the chimp get through faithfully inirror Funny

Blankers Koen, cording their tribal customs and ma

ume, Yale?" he asks. Uuir dialects, protecting them against holder of three Olympic the com

they still reflect bathing beauties the complexities of civilisation,

glamour

fashion and quick she did work Taking records.

Giris, which ranks her

models

wives and secretaries, sprint through diplomacy, with such figures us Florence

and mothers. Elizabeth Fry they notched up the remark Nightingale and

great women Among the able

Alexandra Mme.

Jilstory. Kollontay, who became the first woman ambassador in history when, at 72, she was appointed Soviet sador to Sweden.

Ambas.

EXOTIC EVA

But who else?

CABINET RANK

of

My Inquiries show that the Feminism, in professor Dr W. N. Kellogg, of State University, fact, took n step backward Florida when it failed to stop war. managed to keep the experi-

ment going for nine months. But perhaps some 01 the truly great

a female called The chimp, this women of

was dressed in baby modern are earn few headlines. Gun, They are seldom photographed, clothes, slept in a bed, used the Srarely irapped at the micro- same toys and ato practically the phone, They are great, yet un. Eame food as Donald, the baby the got precisely boy. She known.

same instruction and the same amount of affection.

The professor

FOUGHT EVIL

HEWING over this Intriguing

controversy,

4,000 como women's clubs have drawn up THEN there is the exotic, their own lists-and they are ncorly all different. Some unpredictable and even mention Freya Stark, fore-

dos crt embarrassing Eva Peron, the most

explorer. D Include cabaret singer who captured Others and married President Juan Cochran, a girl with as many a

WAJ as and nying records in the USA

woman dive.

has been

Jacqueline

instru-

FOR EXAMPLE, the

boy who was to grow

up with an ape...

at

'Pauline in the Yellow Dress*

nearest approach to secret of Pauline Gunn.

The eyes, the curve of

faint

the would turn cart-wheels on the the lawn to a beautiful woman, without losing her high spirits. the brows and the

"She looked the perfect clusive smile are all cap. pleture either in Claridges or tured. Mr Gunn has been home on the Sotway Firth."

digging potatoes at her Scottish offered big sums for it but

She will be remembered also ho says he will never part

As a for her rapler-like wit. with it.

girl she mixed with u bright incluied James Gunn painted his literary group which wife once before he married Wyndham Lewis, J. B. Morton her in 1929. All the other (Beachcomber) Edward Shanks

and Hilaire Belice, whom sittings were done between get to know intimately. rounds of housework ax

she

"She had the trick of discom-

looking after her two child- certing the pompous by making

ren Chloe and Paul.

some preposterous reply with "Acting as my husband's the loveliest of smiles" says model is part of my job," Wyndham Lewis.

she once said.

She had a

natural grace. "As in the When she talked

yellow dress picture," says

her husband, "she always

dropped into the right pose WHEN Comeone immediately."

mentioned

man in Marifes who húð bitten off his girl friend's car, But she was something she quipped: "My dear, the wort One gadget was a huge bent more than a paintable wo. of minn who takes two bites på tube designed to shoot a high-man.

Lewis one cherie." Wyndham speed "plug" of alr, It would

wrote: "Pauline Gunn was Of a popular novelist she once break Inch-thick boards

"He scerns to zme Long and remarked: range of 225 yards, but when like a flame.

until he tried against low flying Allied painful illness could not perfectly marvellous

starts thinking." aircraft it proved useless,

quench

a gaiety which

from When a friend said of a rich and equally The second gadget-the brain sprang

rude itted person “It's tires and child of an Australian called courage

intelligence, somebody put him in his place,"

Dr Zippermeyer-was built to natural as breathing, re- che replied: "If he had one.*** project miniature tornadoes amote from malice, rejoicing

acroplanes.

effortless case." :

she

ald: "Poor darting-jus

She turned out

in absurdity, and in expres Of a pessimistic acquaintance When it went off it was ex-sion, hitting the gold with the Feter Pan groaned up." pected to start up a fast-moving whirlpool of air which would suck the wings off bombers.

Dr Zippermoyer managed to produce some whirlpools. But to planes come down,

Groundnut wool

Never Faded

the perfect spontaneous descriptions. "One of these

woich who always seem to be bending over a bunch of Easter lies." she once said

"She's modest, buk.........

FOR four years she hid her And again:

given you a shock like a burich

illness from all but her of electric violets." closest friends. Just before

Admired

I

her death, when she was in Like her Eumour, her geo-

procity was spontaneous. IKE seven maders who have

she entertain anyone admired her possession written in, I had lost sight great pain, of the wanderful synthetic wooled guests with sparkle and such as a painting she would be Hlable to take it off the wall and which scientis made from galety.

give it to him, Kroundnuts,

Mrs E. N. Andrade, wife monta a year after the experi-

Insuperable I found that experiment have of the directar of the Royal But the

£2,000,000 ment Grawback that an ape's intelli gone so well that a

has been built acar

Institution, gives another gence stops developing when it factory

to start is about three years old would Dumfries

producing Instance:--- it getting the "wool" next spring. prevented have

"After a very serious bout of Tu through Yale anyway.

Using only the wasle left illness she insisted on coming to were counties aftor the margarine fat has a party of mine, She was as distant admirers, like the man been

extracted

Nobody the gay as usual.

ever who wrote from Preston: "I go groundnuts, the factory wil | knew. ว

to see her every week.” eventually make 10,000 tons of moth-resistant synthetic

Looking at

"Venetian the overy year.

any Souvenir" painting a few day James Gum after her death, faded. sald simply: "She was my in- son spiration. Life is ended for me

thank God"

Is it true?

NOTHER scientiae project a great stir which caused when it was announced and ta hardly been heard of since was

and his wilo

Sir Oliver, a brilliant selentist who died in 1940, left a scaled envelope with the Society for Paychical Research.

The

from

14001

wher

"Life was champagne to her. livene She always gathering.

Her beauty never

Mrs Andrade's

up

The ticking man

My final readers'-request in- charge of zelentists in

quiry was into the Strange the experiment were forbidden Case of the Ticking Man which to open the envelope until some happened way back in 1938. reputable person came forward

TUIS was the Pauline Guen

her friends knew..

met her, he said: "She beats all now. But I must

There other morE

for lending me such a wonderful "Uniiko so many women,” person," says Men Andrade, "she changed from a guy boisterous giri who

The manufacturers are satis- Sir Oliver Lodge's arrangement fled they can market it at about worked in shifts to record the for proving the truth of spiri- a quarter the price of sheep's Morian

for petivities of both babies con- fualism by communicating with wool. They are even satisfied the girls." Yang.

to 6.30 his friends after he was dead, they can get the groundnuta, tinuously from 7am. instance, graduated from Peking medical college

p.m. every day. sent to B village

Throughout the experiment Peron of the Argentine and, Amy Johnson once had in' where, for five years, no new- not content to be merely Britain. Agreed, Jacly has born baby had ever ilved, Shehe chimp was generally in ad- Mra President, seized the probably flown faster than any discovered that the local midvance of the child both physi-

sterilized their

eally and mentally. When they Her Hite wives helm of press and radio net other

played together Gua was nearly works and boosted herself She once cashed

packed will thrill, ments by plunging them into the always the leader, Donald the

in fames at soil, Info earth laden with Into the power plug behind 300 n.p.h. She has streaked on tetanus germs. It brought home long 12,000-milo junkel over to her the terrible fact that the throne.

rato China's infant anortality mountains, sea and jungle.

worst in the the

world, In Chile, too, an amazing

merely because 480,000 mid- Would you place her among wives Incked all knowledge of and dynamic grandmother, the 25 world leading ladies?

hygiene and sterilisation. twice a widow, heads the

first world's

all-female Admitted, there is Mrs Sarup

Ambasador in A sallow political party. At the next Pandit, India's

woman to woman, she Washington, recond

school of

was

imiliator.

Ape Boaten

In

with

claim to

a trustworthy

According to newspaper cut- Mr Edword have received a message from tings 19-year-old Sir Oliver revealing what is in Franklin of Coventry suddenly the envelope. Opening the en- developed a licking noise in his THE ope put up the better per velope would then show if the cars. It was ED loud that others

formance in intelligence tests. einum were true.

could hear it "People sitting experiments in which the

near me in the cinema think I bospectacled little subject sat behind a wire screen In the Society's view no am carrying a time-bomb," he

cla'm has has devoted her and had to manipulate a hoo to trustworthy

yet told reporters. Doctors, were elections, Maria de la Cruz gain Cabinet rank in the world, life to the establishment of drag an apple within reach, been made. So after 10 years baffled by the noise but could may become the first woman en

midwifery.

The the envelope remains unopened. do nothing to stop it. Each Gua was always brighter. ever to be elected a national prison cell. Today she is the student wor on apostle taking chimp seldom spiled her food president and must surely foremost spokeswoman of her the new methods to more distant when using a spoon, but Donald regions. In her lifetime, Marian often turned his spoon upside- mark world history.

Yang has stumped out an an-down when putting it into his Fient evil.

nation.

years ago

she sat

once

In a

ま

Blow me down!

routh.

Professor Kellogg nummed up

'prewar

WHAT became of the crop of who inventors

palate vibrate

Now at 31 Mr Franklin is still ticking or loudly as ever and slu uvalds going to the plc-. tures, But the doctors are no Yet again-who else? In Rumania Communist

lenger baffled by

tho CAUBO Again, in a back street

They say he has a slight ner- Anna Pauker strikes

Mary Pickford,

the London, Mrs Estrid Dano has the ape's ability by saying that claimed they could bring down vous defect in the throat which harsh note as the world's

to when it was one year old it had bombers just by blowing air at amkes his soft first woman Foreign Minis- world's sweetheart, retains her devoted her life.. similarly

After ex- children, the mental power of at least a them, a reader asks. deformer! place. I submit, as the foremost saving

rapidly, ter. Plumpish, unattrac woman movie magnate, Some Thirty years ago, her small son one-year-old child, the agility amining documents only recent→

four-year-old, clubs even was born with crooked ankles.

and the ly brought off the secret list 1:

This echoes

up the tuber tive, born in a slum, she of the women's

And that two of the inventors leading to his ears and keeps out a

dress Surgzons gave him splints and strength of an eight-year-old. case for became a teacher, turned make

designer Schiaparelli and cos- Irons. Then Mirs Dane discovered Donald at 20 is now doing managed to interest the German lim ticking over. political agitator and spent mete expert. Helena Rubinstein, a series of oxcretes which cured exceptionally wail sa a modical Army sufficiently to get their

She is by reason of their time and him,

Lætudent. --Gua died of pneu- gadgata - built and tested.

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