Beauty Supreme.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 2

Beauty Supreme.

What is beauty’s supreme expression? It can apply to so many things —to architecture for instance, to scenery, to pictures, precious t'tones, priceless china, or gleaming crystal. In the world of fashion it can apply to lovely dress creations, in the theatre, to the dramatic, musical and terpsichorean art, but a wealth of meaning was conveyed to the expres’sion by Lieutenant-Commander R. J. Fletcher (Labour) in the House of Commons last week. * The subject under discussion was the desecration of the Beauty of the English countryside and cities.-, When the honourable gentleman brightly interposed with a dissertation on female beauty which, he said, down through the ages had been considered beauty’s supreme expression. “If this it' so,” he continued, “there was never an age in which more has been done to preserve beauty. The sale of cosmetics —lipstick, creams, soap and lotions hay reached an unprecedented volume. Women may be se'en in every restaurant, in trams -and ’buses and in every public place hard at work on the preservation of their charm and may I say that the greater the ruin, the more active are the steps taken to preserve it,” (Laughter) .