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fi Pitts drab personality and little buttermilk eyes first landed her in pictures. But her happiness over her husband, Tom Gallery, and her new Httle daughter is endangering her type, for ZaSu is actually becoming pretty One case where beauty is a result of happiness, not a cause.
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GRACE KINGSLEY
Lack of Beauty Can Be Overcome by Hard W ork and Happiness Proving That Where There's a Will There's a Way.
IS THERE any real happiness in this life for the woman without beauty?
There you have the question that has agitated feminine hearts since Eve's day . . . and will, until the last trump summons the world to a happily sexless sphere, where the length of a feminine nose or a 'Cupid's bow mouth will no longer shape the destiny of man or of nations.
There are few enough who have real beauty and many who are beautiful who have the ability to put their beauty over. Beauty and brains can get most anywhere but
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they do not always go hand in hand.
Eve, of course, had a simpler problem than any of us gals today. She had no rivals. In this year anno Domini 1923, in a crowded field on a fast track, the question of physical beauty is vital, imperative.
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eauty of feature really means little," said Bebe Daniels,' when I put to her the question of happiness being possible for the unlovely. "It is as easy for a girl who is not pretty to look pretty as it is for a real beauty to cloak her charms by an
unpleasant expression. The expression has more to do with it than features, in my opinion."
"Blah!" I remarked politely. "And also pooh! and a couple of piffles! It's easy for you to say that, with a face that would have made Mark Antony break his date with Cleo. But it takes more than a pleasant expression these days to make a man sign on the dotted line, either on a contract or the pretty gold-sealed certificate that the minister hands out after the perjury.
So I went to Barbara La Marr.
"Suppose a girl isn't pretty . . what then?"