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''Then she must be smart," "But suppose she has neither
beauty nor brains?"
"Then she's gotta be good! But
she can have clothes!"
Where Clothes Help
(Clothes! Ah, Yes! Many a feminine heartbreaker owes the scalps at her belt to the chic gown, the hats with kindly-sheltering brims, the dainty little fripperies. In the heart-stakes race, the animated clothes horse invariably noses in ahead of the serious girl-who-would make-some-man-a-good-wife.
"Happiness is a queer thing", mused Mary Pickford, when I put the burning question to her. "You chase it and it eludes you. You go after something else, — duty, perhaps—and happiness comes quietly, unsought.
."Admiral Sims has a saying 'Cheer up and get busy'. I'd put it the other way round: 'Get busy
" and cheer up'. Work and accomplishment are the only things that
. bring happiness, Beauty is so much a matter of opinion and of good clothes that I don't think the
lovely woman is much happier than anyone else." '
Well, of course, if work means being happy, the plain woman is sitting pretty. She can work. She usually has to.
I wanted the opinion of a man on the question of beauty and happiness in women, so I went to the man who knows.
"What is the most fascinating thing in women?" 1 asked Charlie Chaplin. "Beauty or brains?"
"Neither" said Charlie the connoisseur. "It's something more elusive . . . something ... In men, I know I don't mind a handsome rival. And I don't particularly mind a rival with brains. The rival I fear is the man who 'has a way with him.' It's the same with women."
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Charlie Chaplin Knows
suppose Charlie meant personality—what Elinor Glyn calls "It."
"There are so many different sorts of brains" said Nazimova, "and so many different sorts of beauty. But also there are so many different
sorts of goodness. Did you over think of that? There is generosity, which may go with bad morals. And there are good morals that go with bad temper. Happiness depends on so many things and few Of us ever find it."
Lacked ljeauty. Wins Success
But what of those stars who, lacking beauty, have won success and presumably happiness, either through sheer personality and brains, or through actually turning to account their physical short. comings?
Louise Fazenda, the day she went over to the Mack Sennett studio looking for a job, came home and looked into her mirror.
"My heavens!" she said to herself, "what chance is there for me?"
Then she took another squint, Even as she looked, the mirror faded away. She saw the image of the child she used to be — -a comic child with tight braids, and a habit of falling over everything that came her way. And she thought:
whether or not Helen Jerome Eddy is a beauty. Char ^ lie Chaplin's assertion that ' beauty is a matter of opinion and good clothes seems to be borne out by these two photographs of Miss Eddy.
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