JUDGE OF BEAUTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 514, 17 November 1928, Page 23

JUDGE OF BEAUTY

REGINALD DENNY AGAIN

Nine out of every 2fl Hollywood girls are beautiful, six are pretty and the remaining five are attractive. Tliis is the opinion of Reginald Denny, who has made a personal survey, inspired by remarks recently published in "Le Matin” by Henri Didotier, the French artist, to the effect that three girls out of every ten in Paris are beautiful. After a six months’ investigation Didotier declared that his classification was a correct one. He added that the remaining seven were either attractive or lacking in sex appeal. “The majority of beautiful girls the world over seems to be concentrated in Hollywood,” says Denny in reply. “Maybe it’s the lure of the movies, and perhaps it’s just the climate ‘“The pretty ones attract the male eye, permit the gaze to wander away and then return again. Perhaps i> is a lack of harmony in clothes or the mode of a hat that keeps them out of the first group. “The merely attractive ones are those you gaze at momentarily, only to turn suddenly away. It is a lack of smartness in dress, perhaps uneven heels or an ugly figure. I have noticed,” said Denny, "that many beautiful faces are lost points because of a too slim or too stout figure.”