The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 10, 1898, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1892 _ ' 2y "THESE THREE WOMEN ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TYPES OF [OUELY WOMANHQOD IN FRANCE. ENGLAND AND AMERICA"Carous Duran Carolus Duran, the Great French Painter, Who Has Just Come to This Country, Declares That the Typical Beauties of America, France and England Are Miss Jennie Leiter of Chicago, Comptesse Pourtales and the Countess of Warwick. DURAN, the great >r, who has come immortalize the From erican beau- rom $3000 to red that the Photographs , Eng- ively, of Famous Paintings his talent of the the great fair Ameri- Beau.ues ed Paris and could prices, his judgment espised. by New York reporters who him secured this modern Caro'(US 'Durc“‘_ s from him he gave ful women 1 Mrs. Will h portrait honor at the Loan s held at the M Art two or th )t one of the three typical we here re- CAROLUS DURAN. England’s boast, tne regular and cleans cut features that bespeak highborn an< cestry, eyes of the purest violet hue, and her head is crowned with masses of chestnut hair. When at the age of twenty she mada her debut in English society, the hefre ess to a fortune of $150,000 a year, in« herited from her grandfather, the last Viscount Maynard. MayZair declared she had chosen well when she bestowed her hand on Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick. The late Duke of Albany was Lord Brooke's best m: and his elder brother, the Prince o Wales, was among those who signed the marriage registe It will perhaps surprise many of oun American bea 3 to learn that the woman whom the great painter selects as the representative French beauty, was a belle of the second empire mora than thirty years ago. When Mlle. Me« lanie de Brussac made her debut in Parisian society she at once assumed a place as a social star of the first magnitude, and to-day, as the Com= tesse de Pourtales, she shares with the Princess de Sag: the leadership of Parisian society er dictatorship in all matters pertaining to dress has been acknowledged since, some twenty-odd vears ago, she’introdu: ed the fashion of wearing short dr This she did at a ball to which s nvited her fair friends to come in gowns that cleared the floor. The eect was I rdly pleas- ing—though it led one Parisian wit to remark that he had never seen so many, pretty feet before in his life. The Com- tesse soon revived the vogue of trains on ball : wns, though she continued to use the short skirt with her other cos- tumes. Mme. de Pourtal's was a great frien@ of the Empress Eugenie, anc when the latter escaped to En~land through the assistance of Dr. Zlvans, the famous American dentist who died a few months ago, it was throuyh the diplo- matic skill of Mme. de Pourtales that many personal trinkets she had left be« hind in the hurry of her flight were restored to her. Leiter, to whc »ainter has *nting the land nal b uties, is f Mr. and Mrs. er of Chicago. She h b ade her debut in W the >r beaut L. Z I recently and vever, are ke up for comparative e old gentleman ms: ¢ in dry goods and in real ion in Chi , and W aughter wa ale side of tLe family, d up Chi- ve beauty, the s born in 1861, y well on toward her hele: : she is one 11 women in the the exquisite ski that have alw: A@?)}(’M) COUNTE é THE COUNTESSN OoF 2 o POURTA‘-EQ WARWICK Jan (FrENCH) | Qr (EN‘GleH.) XD