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W O R
That's All!
Is beauty essential to success ? The Prettiest Sliow-Girl answers, emphatically " No ! "
By OLIVE THOMAS
SOME people think it is an advantage to be beautiful. It isn't. It is a harder thing for a pretty girl to succeed than it is for a homely one. Men are never willing, no matter what they may say, to acknowledge that a pretty girl may have some asset besides ner good looks. Men are all alike. So are women — only some have better profiles than others.
I come from the Follies. Now, the Follies is a much-misunderstood institution. I say institution not because Mr. Ziegfeld's press-agent used the word first, but because any theatrical entertainment which has been running for a dozen years, playing in the largest cities of the country, costing many thousands of dollars every season to put on, and employing only the best
EDITOR'S NOTE: Florenz Ziegfeld. manager of the institution of beauty which bears his name, would perhaps be justified if he voiced a protest against the films — for they have stolen some of his most beautiful girls. Among them, Olive Thomas, proclaimed by Harrison Fisher and other artists as the perfect type of brunette beauty; the toast of Manhattan when she was a member of the Follies. Now that she is a film star, she has had time to look back and gain a keen retrospect of show-girl life. She tells you, here, why she left the Follies; and gives you an insight into the mental processes of these beautiful choristers.