AMERICA'S PRETTIEST GIRLS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

AMERICA'S PRETTIEST GIRLS.

WON £I,OOO IN A BEAUTY SHOW. The faces and ligures of Miss Justine Johnstone and of M>se Audrey Munson of America are indeed thenfortune. On three occasions the former has won the first prize m beauij contests, the award in one case being £I,OOO, while Audrey Munson, fcmmn as the "Exposition Girl," is the original of most of the sculpture th.it adorns the sumptuous buildings of the Panama Paciiic Exposition at San Francisco.

Miss Munson is America's most famous artists' model. The majority of America's famous sculptors and painters have agreed in their admiration of her face and figure. And not only is she portrayed in the mural decorations of the Exposition, but she lias sat as a model for many of the paintings and pieces of sculpture in Washington and New York, while in books and magazines her lace is continually met wall. Miss Munson confesses that during the past three years scarcely a day has passed upon which she has not posed for au artist, sculptor, designer, or photographer. She lives with her mother very simply in a small apartment in Upper New York, and is qiutc a clever artiste in her own way, for she sings, plays, and dances classical dances in quite an exceptional manner, without the least show of affectation. Justine Johnstone has not been quite so much in demand, but is nevertheless considered by many of those eminent in the artistic and threatrical worid to be the prettiest girl in the States. That she has no illusions, however, as to the power and attractiveness of the pretty girl is evident from her frank statement. "11 I cannot tell you,'' she remarked, recently, "just how it feels to bo the prettiest girl in America. 1 can at least say that something besides mere beauty is necessary to achieve success. If 1 had my choice between being the prettiest girl in America and the most talented girl, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter." From which it may be gathered that. Miss Johnstone possesses common sense as veil as beauty.