The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 3

FIVEARE KILLED INAUTO MISHAPS; ‘HE EVENING WORLD, “ruxeDar, DECEMBER 20, Yooy. When Is a Woman’s Figure Beautiful? Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Tells How He Judges} THENAWILD CHASE SCORES INJURED There Are Three Distinct Types, Each With Its Own Set of Rules, but the First Requirement Is oe ee Two Women Among Victims of Accidents Over the Holiday. the MANY AT HOSPITALS. Minister’s Son Dies as Auto Collides With Tree in Jersey. Five persons were killed tgvo of them womes, by automobile accidents ‘within the metropolitan district last night and early to-day, and scores of others are in hospitals of the city and those of surrounding communities, some of whom may die. By a curious twist of fate, none of the dead was killed within the city lmits, though thero were several seriously injured in the five boroughs by being run down or in collisions. The women were Mrs. Daniel Dugan, forty, of No, 7 South Ken- sington Street, White Plains, and Mrs. Catherine Vath, forty-five, wife of a North Bergen, N. J., policeman. Mrs, Dugan was struck by an automobile as she wastcrossing Westchester Ave- nue, White Plains, and Joseph Henry, of Silver Lake Park, who was driv- ing the car, was arrested on a techni- cal charge of homicide. Mrs. Vath was killed last night as she was cross- ing the Boulevard in West North Bergen. She was returning home from a Christmas party. Jules Jor- genson of Emerson, N. J., the motor- ist, was arrested charged with man- slaughter. Maurice the Leggett, sixteen, son of former pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Raritan, N. J., ‘was among those killed. He had at- tended a Christmas celebration at the jReformed Church of Raritan with his father and had gone for a ride with Francis Mannon, who had ta new car a few days ago. in the party, out Duke's Boulevard, across the river from Raritan, and were said to have been travelling at a rapid rate when the car skidded and struck a tree. Young Leggett was thrown ont and his skull frac- tured. John Marchont, another of the boys, is in Somerset Hospital, Dut lis ing not serious Joseph Rotison, twenty-seven, of No 9 New Street, Newark, was driving a motorcycle side car and attempted to pass a South Orange trofley in Newark. He collided Jiead-on with anotber, trolley, was Jurled out on his-head and killed in- stantly, Michael Migliacci, twenty- four, of No. 319 West 67th Street. drove Manhattan, was in the side car and was crushed between the two trol- leys. He is in St. Michael's Hos- pital, Newark, in a critical condition Meine, sixty-two, of No, 67 Morris Avenue, New Rochelle, was struck Sund: ht on Union Ave- nue, New Rovlie 1 automobile driven by Will ndon, No. 157 Franklin Avenue, > and dicd last night Louis Appreciello, forty-five, of No R3 Mulford Strect. Yonkers, is in St John's Hospital, that city, in a serious co) dition as the result of having been hurled from a machine in Nepperhan Avenue, Y¥ came wedged in street car tracks. ‘The car was driven by Neil Betrano, twenty-two, of Henrietta Street, Yonkers, Betrano was not arrested, but Coroner Fitzgerald notified him to appear for examination in the event of Apprecicilo’s death Miss Mary Clurk of No sterdam Avenue, Mant seriously injured in Yonkers. Her car was overturned after having struck a parapet on South Broadway, that city, pinioning her under it. She was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where it was said she may die, and several persons in the car with her nie believed to have given the police fictitious names and addresses, 1310 Am- ttan, also was Slenderness—The Venus de Milo Could Never Win in a Beauty Contest To- Day—She Would Be Too Tall and Fat. * *% * By Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. A never take first place in a contest h slenderness, a lot of reasons. These are tho measurements that I consider about right for the giri of to-day: Height—Five feet, five and a half inches. Weight—One hundred and twenty pounds. Foot—Size five. The height should be about seven and one-half times the length of the head, The head should be four times the length of the nose. When the arms are hanging straight at the sides they should be three-fifths of the body. Nowadays it's almost a crime to be too fat. As I have said, Amerl- cans have a passion for slenderness. Other nations don’t share this feeling. I have heard that recently, when an American - made motion picture was taken to Germany, the exhibitors fea- tured one of the minor characters in thetr advertising because she was bigger and fatter than the star, whom they consid- ered far too thin. History tells us that the women of other days did all they could to as- sure plumpness. The Empress Theo- dora was accus- tomed to spend days in warm baths, followed by days in bed. In many coun- tries to-day it is what is called the vital type of woman that is accepted as the most beautiful —that is, the woman of soft con- tours, who is rather plump, slow moy- ing, languorous. But in the United States we insist that if a woman cx pects to be consid< ered beautiful must be sicnder. THREE TYPES OF BEAUTIFUL FIGURES. In giving the measurements which I set down a moment ago, as I said then, I was considering the average girl. But there are three distinct types of beauties in a revue nowadays—the ponies, the girls of medium height and the showgirls. The ponies are the little girls, who do most of the dancing. Many a well known musical star has come fr, the ranks of these “littlest &: —the American public is partlal to the petite and pretty girl who has talent and charm. she PANTOMIME OCCASIONALLY VAUGHN FLANNEL 1S NoT CHARGED FOR BUITe Americans Demand MERICANS, more than any other nationality, have a passion for Therefore, girls who would win beauty prizes abroad would 0; they would be considered too fat. The Venus de Milo would never be accepted for a beauty chopis now- adays; she would be too tall, too fat, too—well, she would be ineligible for The Height Should Be Seven and One- Half Times the Length of the Head, the Arms Three-Fifths the Length of the Body. p= 6 at Slender Figures The girls of medium height are the backbone of the chorus I have given you approximate measurements for them because I consider them tho average American girl, representatives in size as well as in facial beauty of the best that America offers in the way of beautiful womanhood. The showgirls are taller, though of course not excessively tall, Five feet eight is the limit. The'>s is the dig- ious type of beauty. ‘The ne eral proportions are right rth 4 for the average girl IN WHICH CLASS ARE YOU? Now, many women would be better look if th themselves over reful Children of Bronx and Harlem y sut down and thought deciding to which of thes three types they be- long. They certainly will fit into one of the three. Many a woman ts not stunning simply because her looks and carriage are misfits. She !s really a showgirl and she walks like a pony. Sho tries to be cunning, as only a small woman can be, instead of claim- ing for herself the more gracious ways of beauty. Or, perhaps, she's one of those who belong in the second class and tries to fit her looks into the ways of those who are in the third. Moreover, many a woman !s color- less simply because she doesn’t make any effort to find out just what is the proper accent for her beauty. She goes along like a man with his eyes shut, and ther looks at the girls she see? on the stage and wishes she were as beautiful as they are. The wo.an who know where she belongs ought to lose no time in finding out. If she’s the small, delicate, quick moving type she can adopt the ways of the ponies—she can be as much of a sprite as sho likes, The world expects it of her. If she's the average type, she can take a little from both of the other classes, depending largely on her other characteristics to determine the side on which the balance shall le. If she is the dark, languorous sort of girl, the showgirl's charm {s for her; if she’s blonde, vivacious, bubbling over with fun, she's the pony type. THE CARRIAGE MAKES THE GIRL. It {8 most important for a woman to classify her beauty, because her way of carrying herself 1s sure to have much to do with proclaiming to the world that she ‘is beautiful. We have all known girls who really were good looking, but weren't so recog- doesn't nize by their friends because they walled ‘in a lackad: stoop- shouldered fashion, hel themselves badly, made no effort to seem beau- tiful hen perhaps they fell in love. In- they were transformed. They dup, hi their shoulders Mourn Their “Fairy Gedmother” Mrs. Teres” Scocozza, Active in Civic Aff sand Italian Charities, Is Dead. r 1 Scocozza, the “fairy godmother” of all the Italian children th the Broay and Harlem, is dead, and her body will lie in state until Saturday at the family home, No. 207! Virst Avenue, Harlem, In her lifetime Mrs. Seocozza whs active in ciyic affairs and in the betterment of living conditions among Italfans in Harlem and the Bronx During the war, with other womens ot New York, she started a fund for) at 7 ofclock last night, the acquisition of free milk for the Her funeral, which is expected to be Italian war babies across the seas and] one of the largest ever held In Bare , lem, will take place on Saturda was commended by Pope Benedict | morning trem Mount Carmel Churen XV for her work At ¢ in diotn street She 1 urvived by he wis a wonderful Santa ( her husband, Dominick, sons, © y hildren in th Daniel and Michael, the former being arters and re i Prevent of the Ita American So 1 the She loc clety of the t x, and two daugh the orphans, and her lite ed | ters, Angelma and Mrs. Antoinette De with her charitics until a few months Marsico. Interment will be in Cal ago when she was stricken. She died vary (remetery, This Kind of Dancing Will Help to Keep You Slender and Graceful g) back and their heads up, something, And péople exclaimed, “How good looking Soandso hag be- come!” Now, T insist that the girls who are given places in one of my revues shall bo as beautifully straight as the stem of the American beauty rose whose name weave taken for them. They must carry themselves as if they knew that they were beautiful. They must not hunch thelr shoulders up, or let thelr bodies collapse in the middie, emulating the ‘debutante slouch” that a few years ago swept across the country Ike a scourge. HOW YOU CAN GET IT. I know of no better way to acquire this carriage than by taking dancing lessons. Not ballroom dancing, but the sort of aesthetic dancing that is taught nowadays in schools of the better type. Delicing of this sort works wonders. Of course, one rea- son for this ts that it develops per- fect balance, which is at the bottom of all beautiful standing and walking. It gives perfect control of the arms ahd legs, so that a girl can stand gracefully with her arms hanging at her sides, relaxed and yet beauti- fully straight, Vigorous physical ex€rcise will not assure you of standing well; it is likely to make for hardness rather than grace, unless it {is balanced against dancing. A certain amount of it is absolutely necessary, but it must have dancing as its complo- ment. The girl who carries herself well is free from verry anton b her body ts so well trained that she can forget it in thought of what she is doing. It is usually the woman who stands badly who ts awkward. No matter how -pretty a girl's features and figure are, if when she first comes to see me she stands awkwardly, and shuffles when she walks across ny office, I can see that she is temper- amentally out of proportion, and am likely to select another girl who is perhaps not quite so pretty, but whose carriage is better. I know that the first girl's defects could be overcome ‘ty training, but have not the time to train beauty. TRY OBSERVATION, ‘One of the best ways to cultivate beauty is to*watch beautiful women J have seen charming little country girls who were pretty, but no more than that, become beautiful after a few months in New York. ‘That was because they had had the opportunity to watch really beautiful women, and to take notes on what beauty 1s. Often distinctive heauty Nes tn the turn of the head, the mov ment of the body. It is elusive, but it Is the thing that makes one woman stand out while others pass unnoticed. The girl who wants to go on the stage shold go to the theatre just as often as she possibly can, and study the stage’s beautiful women as she would study a book. She should pick out those whose type she is, and watch them care- fully. Then she can adapt what she likes best about them to her own needs. I do not mean that she should imitate them—merely -that she should learn from them. Carriage, posture, the manner in which they sit and stand—these things are all important, and tho stage offers every woman an opportunity to learn from living models. The danger of learning in this way is that a girl may let her new-found knowledge make her artificial. Then she becomes awkward, and no matter how beautiful her figure may ve, !f she handles it awkwardly she ts not even pretty, But if she can pick out another woman's best points and then use them to her own adavantage, she'll get results that will astonish her! (Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Newspaper Syndi Ine JEWISH CLUBS TO UNITE, 75 Men's Orga ations to Form Na- tional Body Here Next Month, That the an will witness American yesterday that synagogues coming year important Judaism with the announcement clubs affiliated throughout revival became in evident men's with the country are to form f national body at the Gulden Jubilee the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in this city in January. The National Wederation of Temple Lrotherhoods {8 to be organized to supplement the work of the syna- gogues in stimulating Interest tn things Jewish. It will include soclal clubs, philanthropic societies and lodges unaffiliated with any national body which have grown out of the svcial needs of the members of temples Seventy-five men’s clubs will send delegates to the convention, \ Automobiles going ‘round and ‘roun’ in Columbus Cirele, one in pursuit of the other. abreast and then one or the other would drop pehind for an instant, as in a chartot race. Mobiles were keeping out of the way, Street Station began making laps in the interest of the law. Once when the machines stopped all got out except a looked like} woman and a fight started, but they scrambled back and resumed the race before the cop could reach them. But the next time around he halted them and took the men to the West 47th Street Station. . effect that he and M. Pollock, address not known, were sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Ansonia Jast night when Uttie crap game uj told dice, reach the boy, trapped on the second The body was recovered hy tiremen FIRST A GRAP GAME, FORA LOST $230 Arabian Nights Episode in Co lumbus Circle Ends in Arrest. Theatre crowds early to-day saw two At times they would be While pedestrians and other auto- Policeman Kirby of the West 47th The explanation of Alliott Kahn of No. 307 West 98th Street, was to the they were invited to get into a friendly airs, They did, fo the extent of $230. Later they were their hosts were professional kamblers ond had used “crgoked When they reforted this to the hotel management, Kahn sald the alleged gamblers were ordered to leave the hotel and Kahh and his frien! waited outside for them. When the two men came they were accompanied by a woman and they jumped into an au- tomobila and tried to escape. Kuhn and his friend were in another car und it was the race around tho circle that the policeman stopped. On Kuhn's complaint a mun describing himself as Sig Schuer, thirty-five, No. 35 Fort Washington Avenue, was ur- rerted on a charge of assault. fvtbsisshi tear BOY DIES IN XMAS FIRE. From Lighted Tree Destroys Worcester Home. WORCESTER, Mass., Dec, 26.— David Sessions, ten-year-old son of Waldo E. Sessions, casket manufac- turer of this clty, was burned to 1es death yesterday when the Sessions home was destroyed by fire believed to have started near a Christmas| d tree which had been wired for elec- trie lighting. Repeated efforts were miade to floor of the house by the ‘lames, MAKES HER DEBUT Six Miss Cla Mr. by her parents at\the Colony Club. Several dinners we the 600 guests Berntardt Able to Get Gut of Bed, / Alter Relapse and Death Rumor to-day, was able to ‘arise will power to fight off sinking spells, declaring if she must die she would do so while actually on the stage, PARIS, Dec. 26. .” indignantly exclaimed Mme. Sarah Bernhardt to one of the many phy: cians attending her after he had urged for her a month of absolute reat. The great after a relapse which led to the report that she was dying, This rumor spread rapidly GANGS IN PIST AT BIG DANCE AT THE COLONY CLUB Police Chase, Twenty revol tween rival ‘gangs’ went shelter When Detectives Butler, an automobile, arriv {nto taxis and sped oft. had been shot In the chin. (Photo by Aime Dupont.) ectiveh Ghauns Handred Which Mr Guests at Ball at Claire Schenck reduced, dozen shots at them described themse n clerk. twenty ro Schenck, and Mrs. daughter of Edwin 8. Schenck of even fused to make a statement. given before ball, wlileh was attended by about] Harlem Hospital is described as serious BATTLENN STREET, ONE MAN'S SHOT eighborhood Awakened in Early Morning by Fight and and in a sub- sequent two-block chase aroused resi- dents in the vicinity of 145th Street and Eighth Avenue early to-day and late homegoers scurrying for McFar- land, Shields and Gorman ofthe West 136th Street, who were patrolling im _ at 145th Street and Eighth Avenue, ten men said to have taken part in the Nght scrambled Lying on the sidewalk was Richard Knolls, a chauffeur, twenty-five years old, of No. 669 Last 139th Street, who two men Avenue and fired @ At 143d Street the detectives overtook the men, who ves ax John McKay, years old. of No, 461 East 127th Street, and Charles No. 910 Fifth Avenue, was \ntroduced| Benjamin, a laborer, twenty-five to soclety last night at a dance given} years old, of No 239 West 145th Stre ‘Thoy were arrested and re- Knolls was taken py Dr. Gilman to where his condition PARIS, Dec. 26 (United Press).—Sarah Bernhardt, greatly improved The famous actress, In theatrical circle: Bernhardt Insintence om appearance at the tragedienne used tremendous | which hearsal, Discussing his mother's cond hardt told the ‘ou wish me to although at her age it predictions until covered. needa a long rest. plans, necessarily. ai tlon for tong time. tress is again Improving throw Parts and cast some GB. 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Bernhardt was stricken with u fainting spell Dec, 17 quring final rehearsal of Sacha Guitry's new play Despite the critical nature of her fll- and loom over Christmas Eve celebrations still in bed, but her tm- provement is indicated in her renewed once in Sacha Gultry'a “Un Sujet de Roman,” was. postponed when she #ufe fered her first fainting spell during re~ PARIS, Dec. 26 (Associated Press).— "on, Mau- Associated she is out of danger, unsafe to make has completely She is still very w All her ti out of the ques- and trical se