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EE EEE OO” ; { } Great Authors’ Ideals of Beauty Feminine Preferences of Master Writers inine ideal has radically varied—each one reflecting in his heroines his own personal ideas of woman’s beauty. Here are a few famous authors, and the types of women they generally depicted: W isin great writers, as with great painters, the fem- GeorcE MerepitH:—The subtle, mentalized, brilliant, intel- lectual woman, with a gift for repartee, and a somewhat cold nature; capable of calculation; well poised and self-confident. She is mature, slender, imperious, with classic features, an im- pressive manner, and a graceful body, healthy but not athletic. JANE AusTEN:—The heroines of this author are products of early victorianism—prudish, prim, religious, conventional, frail, clinging, narrow-minded women, who dress plainly and have plain features. They make a virtue of their weakness, and consider it inelegant to show their emotions. Rosert W,. CHAMBERS:—The Chambers heroine is a literary counterpart of the Christy girl. She is dashing, healthy, nor- mal, independent, athletic, capable, and slightly aggressive— with a lithe, well-rounded body, fair hair, large blue eyes, and a mouth in which sensuousness and restraint are combined. JosEPH CONRAD:— Strange, tense, semi-mys- tical women, of deep pas- sion and powerful person- alities, to whom love is everything, and who are capable of the most in- tense suffering and trag- edy. As a rule, they are dark, womanly, tall, state- ly and regal, with some- thing of the mysterious East about them. DicKENs:—Weak, hy- per - feminine, domestic women with the frailty of girls — naive, unsophisti- cated, and without any particular intelligence. Many of Dickens’ hero- ines (like Dorrit) are the sedentary, clinging - vine variety, with petite bodies, and sweet, characterless faces—women who are narrow and prim, but lov- ing. BALzAc: — Intensely feminine, primitive and loyal—women who sub- merge themselves in the men they love. They are the genuine, warm, emo- tional, spontaneous, unpre- tentious, sensuous type, with all the feminine van- ities—the true daughters of Eve. And their phys- ical beauty is a direct re- flection of their natures. E. PuHILiirs OPPEN- HEIM:—The neatly tai- lored conventionally beau- tiful modern girl, medium sized and refined of fea- ture, who, though possess- ing a strong feminine appeal, is capable, self-reliant, and Terms of the Screen Opportunity Contest HE Goldwyn Photoplay New Faces Contest is open to all women, over seventeen years of age, who are not professional actresses. This does not exclude members of amateur dramatic organizations. The first choice of the judges in this contest— Samuel Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, and James R. Quirk, editor of PHOTOPLAY MaGAzINE—shall receive a years contract to appear in Goldwyn Pictures. During the period of the contract, the winner shall receive a salary equal to that being paid competent actresses playing in pictures at that time. The Goldwyn Company agrees to pay for the trans- portation of the winner and her mother to and from the studios at Culver City, California, and shall have a three years’ option on the winner's services. Other entrants, in addition to the winner, will be considered for use in Goldwyn films. Motion picture tests shall be made of those selected as the best screen possibilities, tests to be made at Goldwyn exchanges, transportation of those chosen to be paid by the company. Photographs of all entrants will be received from February Ist to July Ist, 1922; and shall be addressed to New Faces Editor, PHoTOPLAY MAGAZINE, 25 West 45th Street, New York City. No photo- eraphs will be returned unless sufficient postage is enclosed. The winner will be announced in the September issue of PHOTOPLAY, on the newsstands August 1 5th. JoHN GALSWwoRTHY :— The matured, dignified, aristocratic woman—with a leaning toward social revolution and unconven- tionality; cold of exterior, self-controlled and _ re- pressed, but with an al- most tropical warmth be- neath the surface. Tall, healthy and vigorous, and possessed of semi-classi- cal, semi-voluptuous fea- tures, TuRGENEV: —Dark, flashing, competent girl- women of an Oriental type of beauty — passionate, tragic and vital—with the eyes of martyrs, and a mouth of © sensuousness and purposeful sincerity. They have quick, active intellects, are self-reliant, and capable of doing whatever a man can do. James M._ BaARRIE:— The wistful, ethereal, dreamy, fragile, girlish type of woman—with a quaint, old-fashioned na- ture, breathing forth a delicate atmosphere of lavender and old _ lace. Her features are small - and piquant, her eyes shy and vivid, her nose deli- cate, and her mouth at once sad and playful. James MAKEPEACE THACKERAY:—Two types —one the essence of prim propriety, the other the dashing, daring kind, whom women instinctively mistrust and fear, and men openly seek. The outstanding example is Becky Sharp, cosmopolitan. Her inner nature is warm and emotional, but green-eyed and blonde. Thackeray secretly admires her. her surface is somewhat cold and sophisticated. Epcar ALLAN Por:—Dark, strange, mysterious women, “like the night,” with deep cryptic natures, and eyes like luminous WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE:!—Strong-limbed young women, slender and athletic, keen of mind and quick of tongue. Self- reliant, yet they have their tender moments. Even then, how- black pools—women who symbolize the sorcery and the mys- ticism of the decadent East, and who breathe an atmosphere of the uncanny and the abnormal. 44 ever, their alert mentality is never dormant. Great facial beauty is always an outstanding attribute, judging by the re- marks of others of the dramats(o} 944 Ke 6)(0\) K<SuGOom