BEAUTY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 270, 9 July 1932, Page 7

BEAUTY

Lionel

Barrymore.)

ACEIEVEMENT IN ITS MOST PERFECT I FORM. &

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To absolutely make a definite statement as to what my conception of. beauty is would almost be as disastrous as trying to name the greatest author — or the most famous historian. There. are so many definite kmds of beauty. There are so many different qualities that admire — they take on a semblance of beauty even though I they have many counteracting charac- | teristics. I have always felt the nearest one can get to beauty is to accomplish what ever purpose one has in mind — to the best of one's ability. I think the beauty of accomplishment mounts up to almost the most beautiful of ambitions. A composer will work long hours — sometimes long years — until he has created something that represents a beauty he feels from within. This is an accomplishment of beauty. The same applies to an artist who lives within the beauty of his canvas — a singer who accomplishes the beauty of song — an actor who creates the beauty of other characters through his interpretatioris— and so on down the line. ♦ During the rehearsals of a stage show at oue time, my attention was callec( to an actor, who invariably would "blow up" on his lines. I began to observe this fellow, and down in my heart I knew he would never become a great actor. Yet he studied from morning till night. He did anything within his power to enable him to reach his goal. There was a reat beauty of endeavour in this man's ambitions and sincerity. A person could go on and on defining beauty — you cun find it ahnost anywhere, if you look at it in the right light.