BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2614, 13 April 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Tiik "New York World " has the following :—Though Mrs Potter and Mrs Lang try find the beauty show more profitable in America than in England, Miss Mary Anderson found her type of loveliness a great card in London, and it is said that it is considerably more important and profitable to look well on the English stage than to act well. Thousands flocked night after night to gaze at Miss Anderson ou her Hermione or see her dance as Perdita. It was a peculiar feature of the revival of the " Winter's Tale" that the audience fluctuated in size during the evening. The curtain often rose to a poor house, which began to fill up just before the trial scene commenced; this would increase before the curtain went up for tho dance, until there was not even standing room anywhere. It melted away a good deal when that was done and a third contingent would come in for the pleasure of seeing the most beautiful piece of modern sculpture in flesh and blood standing clothed in drapery so rich aiid beautiful that for the first time the garment of the women on the Parthenon pediment are rivalled. Miss Anderson herself is a great worshipper of beauty in wo-nen, and has been to see all the stage beauties over whom London raves. She was t ilking about them to a friend the other day, and said:—"Dorothy Dene is the prettiest of them all. She is exquisite, charming. You have seen her photographs here, of course, but no black and white reproduction could give you any conception of how really beautiful she is. I met her first at a reception at Sir Frederick's Leighton's house. He was painting her portrait at the time, and was enthusiastic over her ; indeed, it was he who made her fame. Her exhibited her portrait at the Royal Academy, had people to meet her at his house, and continued to praise her until everyone joined in the chorus. You always feel with Dorothy Dene that she is ' too good to be true.' She looks like an ideal head which some artist had painted, dreaming of a beauty he never hoped to see realised. The head is faultless. Mor figure is not so eood, rather below medium height and somewhat brondly made, although she is thin, but her head is most charming. The brow is wide and the eyes are wide apart, and then the face grows down to tho chin in a narrow oval, very narrow indeed, and this, with tho big grey pyes,

gives her a strange, fuiry.like look. They say she might sit for the Fair Lady of Shiilot. Her hair U,i light soft brown, and she keeps it cut short, so that the delicate curls and waves of it stand out around her brow like an A.urole. Her skin is very fine and delicate, and she lias lovely teeth. She is vi-ry careful of herself. She never uses cosmetirs. hiiir bleachers, or anything that would be likely to injure the freshness and charm of her loveliness. Of course at times slumust u.so a little red paint and sometimes white—one's parts require it you know—but sho always goes to a Russian bath next day, and has the last trace, of it steamed out. She is very fond of going about in the rain, too, and let it boat on her face. She told me she never takes anything after the play but a cup of bouillon and biscuit, that she never cats candies, and that she gets nine horns sleep out of every twenty-four. That :s the way she keeps herself fresh and beautiful. Kate Vauglian is another beauty. She is also another of those fragilo, airy creatures English people admire so much. She is married to the Hon. Frederick Wellesley, but its a mistake that she will one day be Duchess of Wellington—the two families are quite distinct. Phyllis Brouehton is auother very pretty woman. She has the prettiest hands and feet and the whitest shoulders and throat I ever saw. She was engaged, I believe, to Viscount Ding-m, who is a nephew to tlio saim: Colonel Wellesley who married Ivato V;mghi:;\ but the engagement was broken, ami Miss Broughton we-ifc into the Courts about it. Connie Gilohiist is another, but she is no longer very young, although stil wonderfully pretty. Him , b'unty. strange to ay, is <•! u vttvy ;ir:stoo!->ti<;

type, and lh°y (e'l mesh" \a It n: iiiv respects as pwi■! ;vs her f ny. Tlv'S., , me only the moit prom■ no:it ■ f tin< beauties, but there arc legions i,f !, , lights. It would seem tiui t':.i; English were becoming quite as niiiisli a bjnutyloving race as the Italians."