on
This In the ever
populalr
stage beauty of
Holland.
Bolton, 9
Zerline
dancer at"!
singer whose vi-
vacity has
gained her inter-
national fame.
, l'rll(,)l'(3ll I] most (' invidwr'alile part
/— of Huropc is 'll'\inlil|‘§ ll‘ aitcntioa
‘ these davs to tho- rapidly changing
political dcvt-lopmcziia. thci'c i. a vcrv sail)
Hilnliai part that built-xv: tho inmt im
portaltt drama n m‘ playsiuir o'i iln- i‘uiii
ll"illill stag» it tli~- liaiflw of Limo”: lit-.IH
Iii-4 at Mimic ('allu iii “batch-r f"lll (-i‘
illl'oiic ii i~i til it is rv- -:‘\'.'l ioi' ‘lhc mil
bountiful \voiiLaii in tin- norld "
To thou1 “llw '-:'- iilt-‘i'o- lt"l lll ilii;
t'Hlicr spcctaculav -‘ "i oi' \uilng i.\ :mcu,
Milo arc uudr-L' ildu ;v' w. v.§liiLf and [an it
of whom .vw '. i '...- at lici' co'mziaml
liuliinitud l‘ . ' ..E ii}. M iu-v..-l illt is.
n .tbirw clv H.” l~ trail piiiii", iii an 1th-
l-iwmu tinil ‘--'. world l~ ol’ llII‘ lc. f iiiir
pot run
.l:;"l 'I‘i'.‘ swallow ('hiizi or :aipplv
i:~»--; W.» while cvcr at lb.- point of
H'|"l".7.- 1': do so; lltl<>ia lllJlY ln- \‘idi'l'lllz'
or about to Stircad its llill\lli".'i.\'lil o\cr all
'llr‘ l“. \l;
;; ital-ads
have its problcill of sul'ili' in:ii'r‘.iii:’. Marv
ltaly and Frame m'iy bc at log
oicr 'l'urltcv and i-Inulin-l may
and setting hcr up at lioii~.-lwcpin: on llz-r
own account but all tbcsc th;nc,- arc incro
idle incidcuts‘ as l omparcd to lin- piobicmm
Vt'hich one of thc internal ionai llt‘..lll(‘n‘ \\ ill
be. acclaimed at last the most beautiful of
tilt and the most popular, and having iron
the crown, how will the. successful caudi
date wear it?
Few Attract Any Attention
Where So Many Are Beautiful
To merely say that the “liattle"-~for in-
deed it is a battlefiis staged at Monte
t‘urlo is to tell half the story in a few
words. One may visit Monte (‘arlo and
spend a month and go away and not a soul
In the entire principality will know of the
incident unless one makes himself noticed
bv the number of gold pieces he distributes
while there.
Of beautiful women there are thousands
——every woman is beautiful in this roman-
tic setting. for the lights in the (‘asino
and the. shadows along the bench seen) to
be arranged to serve as punctuations of
feuiinine'aliurements.
~ ’l‘o attract attention. therefore. means
that whoever has been so fortunate also
has been liberal with largess, extravagant
In expenditures and of a personality that
stands out in relief against a multitude of
personalities, each one unique. So when
Monte (‘arlo notices a group of beautiful
women—ah! indeed they must be charm-
ing, houris worthy of a Caliph. uwnv-d to
the distraction of all who covet their mo-
dtstes, with jewels that would arouse the
envy of a Maharanee and with phalanxes
of admirers that remind of ancient Queens
and their troubadours. To a woman to be
merely good to look upon is to be common-
place and of the unattended majority at
Monte Carlo.
3" half the MOT? is told when it is said
”‘3‘- “ bevy 0' Pretty ladies have attracted
attention at this.Mecca of adventurers by
the-ir efforts to win the crown that beauty
“var-I ozi lllt' i'nntinnut. The other half of
thc storv has to do with who the) urn—
and why. And pi-rhap» a passing: notice of
thc Utllllli'n‘4 in a \llilallilll that prcscnts a
rivalry of prot‘chiiinal inaluilcs and the
lli'lllJl'i' that is paid ilii-til ivy l)t‘-)[|lt’.\1 of all
infill-Kin as almost ihc fin-t tanlublo cvl
(In-n. c that thc “at ix ovcr and that thc ll.l
ti ma [cut-till) \illllll‘n: cach otbcrs'
llilitll‘ ai'i- rciil)‘ .iKJlll to bc llt‘lélllliirfi
.lilil into; :~i)<‘l.ll c iiiirliziiiion with iJllt' zin-
ruin”
if.” .-\.iri:;ile‘ l' ~i.ti .il Franci- :itill looks
upon [Hillil-JI (Scimany a» a potculzaily
ll.lli;.:t'l'-ill< cilctny. 'l III-y arc not at \\ar—«-
l,a\cn'i lwcn for hi‘H‘l'Jl )carauiow whilll
lllo' Norman and tlw' FiI-iiihman llavcll't
l'i l‘lilllt‘ :iroaiid to thc >l.ti\' of mind “hit-h
lil'l’ll."\' thc one to run in upon ilic other
and ii'i‘rm l'lt‘ l.i\\li llli7\\t'l‘ to (”at tho
lili’il ).li.i gm“. 'l‘hc (Icrmau in l'aris
an: lliv' Fri-ii 'litnan :ii :crlill walk about
i'intti-riy still, anii lock around cvcry time
illi'l‘v' i> a noise bchind tlicm.
Would Like Things Better.
80 Meet on Neutral Ground
'l'licy'd like to have things dii'icrct:t.
'l‘hc pcacc trczity is. signed and they'd like
to baie it en'ccthcrsocially, anyway,
since they really are neighbors, living in
the same block. as it were. So they
are rather glad that down by the
ma at Monte (Turio, neutral ground. the
l-‘rcnr-h visitors to the printipality no
knowledge that Fraulein Elisabeth von
l-Iudcrt is the seCond most beautiful
woman in the World —- Mademoiselle
Yvonne llouet of Paris being her only
superior; and that the rich Germans who
are spending this season enjoying the
txcitement at the Casino are all ready to
agree that the mistake of the French is
only a slight one, a transposition of names,
as it were— that it'is Mademoiselle Houet
who is the second most beautiful feminine
thing in the world; out-beautied only by
their own Fraulein von Endert. '
That they can so n'early agree and be
patient with 'one another's pretensions
without longing for Foch or llindenburg
is the surest sign Europe has detected
that matters internationalare on the way
to becoming “as they were."
Besides these two claimants to the
romantic throne of beauty there are many
others. What the psychological influence
may be that has brought such a situation
about one cannot‘ determine, but the fact.
remains that without prearrangement,
without a settled design, each principal
nation of Europe has entered a candidate
in this interesting contest.
again; only this time with feminine am-
munition and good, humor as their
strategy.
There lg. for example, Mme. Steffy Ul-
berty. who represents Austria. She is a
typical Viennese, the very spirit of thOSe
entrancing waitzes which haunt. our
memories as souvenirs of the Vienna of
It is as if,
the nations were fighting the war all over .
OUTH NQBWALK EVENINGSENTINEL.
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International. Rivalry for World Fame
Draws Lovely Femininity to Monaco _
"With'Hosts Of Their Admirers——
France, _Holland, Austria '
and'Germany Have Charming
Entrants in Pulchritude Race
There is no Empress Zita
now in L'lberty is the
nearest thing to an empress Austria has
She was a nurse in 3 Viennese
thc llapsburgs.
Austria so Mme.
to boast of.
hospital during the war. Xi‘a compli-
mcnlcd her one day, which brought her
into prominence.
()ne of the rich youngsters of the spend-
thriit sct .rougat her out and spcllci Love
with a capital lcltcr cacrustcd with
t‘lllcl‘dlilS. So she moici from a humble
:ziilo strcct lodgings to a palace and opened
now madam instead of inade—
moiwllc. Her husband furthcr adornc‘i
licr with cmcraltlx’ anti was more and more
SllllSllt‘il as the fame of licr beauty and
charm sprcad through the troublcd land_
\\'hcn thc (lauds ovcr Austria wcrc durlmet
shc scilt out thousands of no-atlv cngravci
(‘arils to 34 many intcrcsting persons, \\ hich
horc ihc cvtraordinury invitation:
“’l‘hcrc's no wccpillg at my house.
and laugh with us."
Austria's Fair Candidate
Recklessly Extravagant
a ;.ilou.
(‘ome
llmux and thcir mudcmoisviles of the
Vienna that was acccptcd the invitation
and went to the palace of Mmc. l’lberty to
forget their own troubles and the and
affairs or state, and so Mme. I'lberty be
came quite famous. llcr husband‘s stuck
of emeralds and other negotiable wealth
weathered the storm somehow. She arrived
at Monte (‘urlo with u retinue of devotees.
a bag of jewels that would secure a sizable
loan for Austria. and celebrated her advent
by merrily losing ten thousand English
pounds at the roulette table. When she
swept out of the room it was quite apparent
that Austria had sent a worthy contestant
for the beauty honors of Europe.
There is no way of computing Mme.
l'lberty‘s extravagance at Monte Carlo, but
it is safe to estimate that she has spent
half :1 million dollarshhcr losses at the
roulette wheel lnCludv-lr-‘tlill‘lllg her visit.
'l‘heu thcre is Zerline [lain-u. the dancing
girl from Holland. They <ay of her she
has thc most shapely llil'l i< in Europe and
icct that cannot be rivnll i uuywhcre. She
is the laughing, \'l\‘ll(‘lt)‘.l\ typc that seems
always to be at the vergc of hrcnking int)
n snatch of some ply littlc wzzg. The
hiatorv of Milo. Zerline i; so" ~i“:':‘: of a
invacrv. Holland did not Ln. v .rl her
whcn the war began .‘urf t.” J ~turdy
littiu- (ountry was hm t'i\vll much t)
ohscriation of tin- i'c-tcr curing the
slrczmous days of cc: 'ii.', ju>t bcyomi its
lil)rilt‘r.\'.
When it bccumr- wpnnr: "t that the nation
Would not be ~’"‘i' 'i 1‘. embarrassed by the
pri‘sclli'e of th- wxix’..iser and that the
Allii‘~‘ Weru rut ‘vi::ig to lie Llllillt‘dsnll!
about dcuiamruu li< cv‘
tradition, il-l...:=.i scttlcxl
down to lmil. .irounl at
homc :4 scc u but had in;
pi’lu‘rl “lilm ll '
U‘
via; bus; rise. '5:
vilicrr. “°‘
v.
()uu thing ““
6.4:
tint sccmcd to
huvo happened
was Mlle. Zer~
line. She was
the most pop-
ular y o u n g
woman in the
country. S h e
s a n g l i t t l e
things in ope-
r e t t a s a n d
danced in the
second chorus
and blew kisses
front the tips
of her fingers
at the audi-
ences. T h a t
was all — but
wherever she
appeared there
was only standing room.
and wagons came after the
performance to'carry away
thelowers showered upon
her by her admirers. The wagons took
them to a palatial house, the rent of which
must have been far more than any theater
manager could afl'ord t
salary. 0 pay her in weekly
Never Stirred Any Scandal:
Gave Flowers to Hospitals
But there Was never a word of scandal.
Little Zerline was very good and sent the
flowers to hospitals and had a little habit
of having street gamlns, gathered up by
her chauffeur, in to breakfast every morn-
ing. It was lunch for the gamins, of course.
for Zerline considers other folks' breakfast
time the middle of the night.
Certainly Mlle. Zerline had a father and
a mother and a place to be born and
brought up in, but no one know; much
about these incidents of her past. So far
as she is concerned the history of the"
world began when the good people of
Amatnl’dnm discovered they could so to
the opera house and have her lull them
into temporary forgetfulness of the troubles
that had for a few years past attended their
exports oi cheese and othcr national prod
ilcts.
When Zerline heard that Mme. Ulberty
and Mlle. llouet and Fraulein von lindert
were at Monte Carlo dividing the honors
at this resort she dc»
that liF-rllli _v ca rns
ciilcil that the honor of llol
land was at stake and was
soon on the ground. llcr ar<
rival was an event. llol
landcrs are not common in
large number in Monaco.
They prefer the more Sedate
placcs of rccrcation ncurer
home.
But they (sum in the train
oi thcir favorite and dctnon-
strutcd thc truth of the say
lugs thlt lime to do with
the linkincss oi‘ beginners at
the gambling tables. ’l‘hcv
win every night huge sums
and spend them every day.
Thcy sit in groups on the
hotel veranda and make enor-
mous bcts upon the exact
minute Mlle. Zerline will ap-
pear for her morning prom
cnade or upon the color of
the dress she will be wear-
ing. it they hear that some
admirer of another beauty
has presented his favorite
with a diamond brooch they will club to-
gether and send a hurried messenger to
Paris for a string of pearls to bestow upon
Mlle. Zerline. Their motto is:
honor of Holland—Mlle. Zerline."
Mlle. Houet of Paris would ordinarily
have little competition. Paris loves her
beauties and is lavish in, her devotion.
“For the
Since Gaby Deslys there has been no one'
in whose honor France is so unanimous
‘5 Mile. Houet. She was a’beauty. of
cou rse. before her debut. and many know it.
But Paris loves the dramatic, and Mlle.
Houet was not considered as having been
properly presented to the toasters of the
town until at the opening of the new Cafe
R‘otonde. the newest shrine of all that is
blithe and uncareful in Paris, she was pre-
sented by the management as the honored
occupant of the principal box. That
Copyright. 1.922. by The New York Herald.
Monte Carlo
gaming room.
where battle of
beauty ll
, being foulin-
crowned her newest queen of the city's
beauties and she has done honor to her
throne ever since,
Occasionally she still appears-at the the-
ater. but not often. Being a famous beauty
is a time consuming business. Virtually
half of each day must be spent permitting
famous dressmakers to design new gowns
for her; milliners must be seen and ad-
vised ae to her preference in new hats:
lunch and tea times must be made to go
around among new admirers as far as pos-
sible. and,'ot course, each day the motor
ride through the boulevards must be given
an hour, so that the public may not forget.
Since that night at the Cafe Rotonde
Mlle. Honet has acquired many magnificent
jewels, ropes of pearls, necklaces of dia-
monds—she is particularly fond of dia-
monds and has done much to, restore these
gems to a popularity that had waned—and
Mlle. Yvonne Houet.
the appealing Fri-mi:
girl who upholds
the beauty
claims of her mutiny.
land most ably at
Monte Carin.
_ ;4\..~— -
At the left is Fraulein Elisabei‘:
von Endert, the classic
Serman beauty, in the great intcr-
national beauty race at lV‘lonte
Carlo. Her gor-
geous gowns and
priceless jevv .-l-,
make her a worihv
contestant.
great combs set almost solidly Wllh 533'
phircs. She holds her court haughiii} a
Monte Carlo and plays very little at "is
Casino. She is an every night sperts’wr .'
the tables, however, and occasionally, 3»?
ingly lays a jeWel on the black or red. lea:
ing the money settlement based upon the
value of the gem to be made next day t?
her secretary.
Oh. certainly—each of these (all:
beauties has her secretary, her n:.x:; ..
business to attend to her financial attain.
her principal maid to govern her lesser
servants, her major dome and her chm.
f'eurs.
Two Other Noted Women
Share Interest of Visitor;
-There are still two other claimants u
the beauty crown. These are claimants
who are doubly interesting. They do out
fling Jewels about or startle with their
newest gowns or with their extravagem‘fi.
They have won a tacit understanding that
they must be looked upon closely by an?
judges at a beauty coronation by the ver"
magnetism of their marvelous charm-
One of these is Mme. Strauss, wife of the
opera writing Monsieur Oscar. The other
also is the wife of a famous man—Mme.
Ferraris. whose husband is declared by:
some to be Europe's most celebrated
artist.
Both are young and very stunning. Both
are vivacious and queens of a little coteris
of devoted admirers. And the charm 0!
both is augmented by that lneflable. lu—
tanglble gentleness of the matron from
n
whose lips one unconsciously expects that
sentiment: I
“I love this during, sparkling, panoramic:
Monte Carlo. and I love its fluttering—but;
I am happiest at home.“
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