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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 31, 1923 i embarrassing to the side. Take the , MISS MARIE DORO DECLARED JULIET OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, AS DOLORES IS PRONOUNCED HELEN OF TROY Exquisite Diagram of Features Set Off by Dusky Kir of Long-lashed Eyes Which Have Set Many to Rhapsodizing Nose Is Piquant and Cheek Bones Delicately Accentuated Transparent Skin Profile Famous for Perfection. loilowlng case: Z, the dealer bids a heart; A i doubles, and T, the dealer's partner, i ITALIAN WOMAN LEADER IN AUXILIARY y TO FASCIST! WEARS BLACK UNIFORMS Photograph of Donna Maria Christina Rossi Received Directly From Romtj Mrs. Allen Dulles Takes Prominent Part in Social Life of Washington's Of ficial Set. holds any one of the following-: K9 8 7 QJ85 Q9654 AQ76SKQ 10 865 83 J7 8 AQJ84 87 J7 9 In the first example given he shonld bid two hearts; In second, three hearts, and in the third, four hearts. Should this player be unable to raise the bid but hold two auick trick values in at least two other suits, he should bid no trumps over the double. This would be on hands hke the following, the double, we will say, being the double of a spade: 8 A Q 8 K 9 7 6 Q 9 7 5 9 7 As in other cases where it is de yr- v T1 . I try irr . sf A Doro 4 Y if -?-V YYr-i:ri -u f Tii 'f " 'ii ,SV " " J V "l. 4gt ' S. A V I i V'' - .SWH- " - V"VSFV 1 - 5; i . , -; - , -. " 4 " - v " t(Y 'X-IV ( 1 i ; ? v v' ?? " r BY ANTOINETTE DONNELLY. This la the seventh of a series of arti cles by Miss Donnelly on the 12 most beautiful women in America. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Some scribe said of Miss Marie Doro that if he were a theat rical manager, he would cast her for Juliet, since in so far as looks were concerned no more realistic one could be imagined. Miss Doro is the Juliet of beauti ful women, as Dolores is the Helen of Troy; as your favorite may pos eiDiy suggest a Cleopatra or a Maria Antoinette. With the lovely Marie visualized as Juliet you might well sympathize with the hypnotized Romeo's state of mind when he gave epeech to: "One fairer than my love! the all seeing sun Ne'er saw her match-eince first the world begun." , Extravagant? Well, Miss Doro monopolizes so many graces and so much beauty one just naturally does become reckless with praise. A line of Burke's bombast to Marie An toinette recalled itself to . me as I eat facing the bewitching creature: "Surely never lighted on this orb a ir.ore delightful vision." Girl Exquisitely Beautiful. She is a thlng of exquftite beauty. And a Joy forever you may with out trepidation prophesy. She looks younger, if anything, than when first I saw her rjuite a few years ago. It was in xthe "Butterfly on the Wheel." The plot long since sunk into oblivion, if it ever regis tered at all, yet the most vivid mental picture I have of an ex quisitely beautiful woman is that of jiliss Doro on that occasion. You know how it is how for years you will carry a beautiful bit of landscape, a cherry tree in bloom, perhaps, a poetical couplet of rare charm, perhaps a single flower in a lovely slender vase the picture haunts you with recurrent and irre sistible appeal. y Eeauty is a peculiar thing. It is so much a matter of taste like the beauty of a gray Whistler day, a Spring Song or a Maria Chapdelaine. We see women whose beauty is as obvious as the Bheims cathedral, say. Women who have undefinable beauty, beauty which almost r mains a secret. There are women whose beauty is like a well ar ranged shop window, registering the art of display rather than ap peal to the emotions. Of Cleopatra we are told her beauty was not so remarkable thai none could be com pared to her; that the contact of her person, her charm of conversation, her voice were the things 1 that counted In her summing' up. But, Is It not true that we think of Cleopatra not as beautiful figure merely, but as living in a kingdom of beauty? We see her in the set ting of her oeautiful- barge with gilded etern and outspread sails of purple, with silver oars heating time to the music of flutes and harps. Is it not the beauty with emo tional appeal which we view with keenest delight? Eyes Are Dark. Miss Doro's is that quality of witchery. She is the answer to us romanticists who demand a lovely heroine no matter what the plot, a lovely magazine cover regardless of the reading matter. ' She is the lovely heroine of beaaty which lives on forever no matter what the changes in current beauty fashion, and there's no denying that the fashion of beauty, alters from time to time. Besides exquisite diagram of fea tures, she has a pair of dusky long lashed eyes that have set many scribe to rhapsodizing under a thick cloud of dark brown hair almost of the hue of her eyes. The piquant nose and delicately accentuated cheek bones, transparent skin and a profile long famous for its rare perfection, added to that undeniably greatest of all beauty appeal, an ex. quiglte delicacy and daintiness of person, and you have; Miss Doro, 6 s V whom I think one of the rare beau ties among women. t I saw her in her apartment In the East Fifties a day or two after her return from abroad, wearing a Paris frock of dark brown and tan crepe, beige stockings and red kid strap pumps, a wide brown felt hat with a great velvet bow ori its left brim, and which, incidentally, she told me she had made on her head as she waited, taking an entire afternoon for the operation. The - operation was' successful. The hat was stun ning and from shoes to hat, includ ing eyes and hair, a symphonic poem. The shoes were a distinctly Pa- risienne note, and quite the vogue over there, she told me. Very dark red they were, so that at first glance they seemed brown. I must show you the cute gloves they are wearing over there," she said, producing a pair of short black kids, white stitched with tiny cuffs of the black pinked like a corsage paper base in white. "I saw a great beauty over there at a dinner just a few nights before I came away. wearing these short gloves with a decollette gown, arms perfectly bare, of course. Her hair was brushed back into a simple knot and sne was a picture, reminiscent of the 1830s. Hats Important Item. T think hats are the most im portant item of a woman's dress," she said when we talked this Es peranto of feminine language. "I think pretty women, should wear large hats. They are the frame of the picture. The small tight fitting hat is for the woman who is classi fied as smart rather than beautiful. Of course, no rules may be laid down for nat wearing except the rule the mirror and a clever milliner makes for the individual person. The Pa risian' hats are tremendously chic oecause the hat is made for the in dividual." We talked generally about beauty and dress. Said the lovely Marie: "Dress Is language that speaks. The mis takes are grammatical errors, and put one out of the picture quite as much as" bad English does. . The French have perfect diction in this regard and I think that is where they get their reputation for pulch ritude. They do not make mistakes in dress. "I have been pretty much over the world and have seen beauty In different countries. Curious, isn't it, ' how you will see the beautiful women who are not pretty and pret ty women who are not beautiful. It is all so interesting. In Sicily there you see the world-famed beauties, cold and haughty beauties, when up steps a pretty American girl with her verve and dash and you change your admiration from the beautiful to the pretty. "But of all the beautiful women I have ever seen in my life any where Dolores is the most superla tively beautiful. Have you : seen her?", she asked. "'Yes, she heads my list of beautiful women in ,this series," I told her. "Well, she should. She is simply marvelous. I was at a party In Paris last summer attended by ce lebrities and beauties from all over. Dolores was present and when she made her entrance she so eclipsed everyone else well, you simply could not see any one. else, that's all. She is ama,zingly beautiful." Mary Curzon, Lady Diana Man- hers, Cfavaliera and Elsie Ferguson were other favorite beauties of Miss Doro ; also Irene Bordoni and Mary Roberts Rinehart. .- "How about a few little beauty j secrets?" I urged. "I wish some one would tell me how to get fat," she sidestepped. "I suppose you always want . to be what you are not. I would like to be tall and beautiful like Dolores. Next to that I want to put on some weight." - - Miss Doro Is five feet four and weighs 112 pounds, which seemed to me sufficient weight to carry, for certainly no bonei. were showing; no lines, no single imperfection of detail. She is the youngest-looking person imaginable. She could pass easily for one in her early twenties. "Not being beautiful," she said in all sincerity, "I can't give beauty se crets, but I have a health one that I practice religiously. To put it very badly, it is keeping my insides clean. I choose my diet so that each day my system is provided foods that help In the process of elimination.- I drink much water. 1 eat vegetables and fruits and salads every day. I have a firm conviction that half the ills of the world are due to carelessness In this regard. ine iooks are regulated by It too; the eyes, the skin and the hair. As much thought to keeping oneself clean inside should be given as the out I have been in pictures so long where, of course, you have little time for exercise, so that I have to watch myself more care fully than one who has the oppor tunity for exercise." ' Miss Doro's eyes and skin and hair are convincing testimony of the sanity of the advice, which every medical man would substan tiate as the best bit of health and beauty advice that could be given. Face Washed With Soap. "I wash my face with soap and water, although I have to listen now and then to advice from people not to do this. But I don't see how anyone can.be clean without soap and water. I can't, I know. I never naa a massage in mv Hf Butnaturally my face does get cold BY ANNIE BLANCHE SHELBY. BEFORE leaving the subject of the negative double I want to speak regarding the obligations which rest upon the partner of the player whose bid has been nega tively doubled. Before the double and -its many possibilities was as thoroughly un derstood as at the present time it was pretty generally conceded that inasmuch as the double imposed upon the doubling player's partner an obligation to make a bid, no matter how illy adapted his hand might be to a bid, the partner of the player whose bid was doubled should generally pass, the more so as he would get the opportunity to bid on the second round in case his hand warranted his doing so. Now this is all changed The proper use and application of the negative double not only by the doubling player and his partner, but creaming enough when I am making up. "But I'll tell you an awfully good thing for the face. My mother has used it for years and I use it fre quently. It is the yolk- of an egg as a cleanser. It cleans the pores out wonderfully. And I think acts as an astringent, too. . "O, I do something that I think might be helpful. Before I take my hot bath I smear my face with cold cream and let that remain on while I bathe. The steam and the heat of the body seems to make the cream penetrate the pores better and after my bath I wipe it off and then wash my face with soap and water. 'That really is a helpful hint, as,nalf valu8 -(In au tw0 Qulol!; trick those of us who have stolen march on the facial masseuse at the Turkish bath may testify to. I have applied the cream before entering the steam room and it is most ef fective as a massage. "I love to watch a beautiful wom an. I love to study her. Her grace of walk, her posture as she sits, stands, moves. People ought to de velop a sense of beauty just as other senses are developed. By that I mean studying art as it is pre sented by the great sculptors. There is a world of learning in that for us women. Studying the lines of a woman's neck Intrigues me, the back of the neck from the shoulders up to the hair. I love that graceful line there you see on some women. And yet, so many women let them selves slump. They let the head push' forward in a lazy way and destroy the symmetry there. It is simply a matter of holding the head up as though it were still attached to the spine. I have become so in terested in it that it has made me watch out for my own. , "I think esthetic dancing wonder ful up to a certain point. It de velops , the sense of beauty as it applies to the body. But the mis take, there is In continuing on until one gets 'posey.' I practice poses with statuary as my guide, grace ful, meaning poses, but it is like practicing the Scales in music, the rudimentary effort must be forgot ten in the execution , of a piece, or like learning the technique of a song and singing ft without trace of techniaue. I think that th wnV itn imni.. -,.. t learn and then forget the rules." ' by the side doubled has become a science in itself, and often a de cided responsibility rests upon the partner of the player whose bid has been negatively doubled. The player occupying this position has one of four courses open to him. . He should not simply pass as a matter of course as was formerly considered his best and only pro cedure, but he should pass, redouble, make a bid of his own or raise his partner's bid, according to the' spe cial mate up of his hand. When the double is the double of a suit bid, the doubled player's partner ' within the range of all players that should immediately raise the bid if hitherto were undreamed of and has having the strength necessary to added immeasurably to the scien the raise; in j fact, if having an tific features of the game. Complete unusually strong assisting hand, he understanding and harmony, how--should at once raise to the limit of ' ever, must exist between players his hand, rather than give his left- . regarding the significance of. the hand adversary, B. the opportunity : double and the particular thing it to make a bid which might prove) asks ones partner to do, else great sirable to change a minor suit bid to a no-trump bid, though able to assist the bid, the partner, if having the strength necessary to a no trump bid, should bid no trumps over the double. This would be on hands like the following, clubs, we will assume, being the bid doubled: K86 A 8 7 6 AQ8 5 Q 9 8 The minimum requirement for a no-trump bid in cases of this nature is two quick tricks distributed among two suits at least other than the one bid. A bid made by the "partner of the player whose bid has been doubled to deny help at the bid made is considered of doubtful tactical ex pediency, unless, the bid being minor suit, the player holds as good as an original bid in a major suit, or, the bid being a major suit, he is without help for the suit bid, but has as good as an original bid in the remaining major. Now, as to the policy of the dou bled player's partner - in cases where a no-trump bid has been doubled negatively: Should It be that he also holds a no-trump hand he should bid two no trumps, let the double Btand or redouble, ac cording to the particular strength of his hand. The redouble is consid ered the best policy, unless one's holding is such as to give good as surance of going game at the two no-trump bid, it being an axiom of auction that unless able to go game it is better to strive for penalties. Take, for instance, hands like the following: A 10 8 6 K7 QJ87 8 6 1 KJ75 K1074 96 A75 Many players with such holdings would unhesitatingly bid two no trumps and likely make two no trumps. As the hands give no assur ance of game, however, the redouble would be decidedly the better policy, inasmuch as it would enable them to score double tricks below the line and 200 above, 100 for making good at a redouble and 100 for the extra tricks. Lacking the requisites to the no trump bid or to a redouble, the doubled player's partner should bid his own suit, major or minor. If it be as good as an original bid. This would be on hands like the follow ing: 8 6 K J 8 J75 9 6 10 9 8 KQ1096 AQJ8 7 8 7 2 In the example first given h should bid two spades; in the seo ond, two diamonds. The informa tion thus conveyed to his partner, the no-trump bidder, that his suit Is as good as an original bid will often induce him, the no-trump bid der, to bid two no trumps and fre quently make game, whereas but for the Information given he would be compelled to pass. Whitehead gives the following in teresting hand as showing the im portance under conditions as men tioned of the partner showing his suit: . 108 6 4 2 A Q 10 8 7 K10 4 K J 9 2 A Q 9 7 J 9 Q 8 7 Z, the dealer, bids no trumps, and A who also has a no-trump hand, doubles. Y, being unable to redouble or to bid two no trumps, bids his suit, which, oontaining 1 quick tlnl. .olnao .nritti on aililftlinal nna. values), is as good as an original bid. Because of the inference the bid conveys to Z, Z is enabled to raise his original one no-trump bid to two, a thing he could not have done had Y postponed showing his suit until the second round of bid ding. Had this been the policy adopted, Z would have inferred the bid to represent a long suit without the tops rather than what it in reality was, a bid as good as an original bid. Played at no trumps, Z has little difficulty in making three odds tricks, or game. In the rare cases where a. player's no-trump bid has been negatively doubled and the partner holds a solid minor suit, six or more to the ace, king and tnieen, or five or more to the ace, king, queen and jack, he, the 'partner, should bid two no trumps regardless of whether or not ha holds other re entry. Lacking the requisites as, given for a redouble, a bid of two no trumps or a suit bid, the partner should pass, bidding his suit a long, weak suit, if he have one on the second round if this then seems de sirable. The adoption of any one of these methods by the partner of the player whose no-trump bid has been negatively doubled will leave the no trump bidder In no doubt as to the particular makeup of his partner's suit and hand. He will know, not simply have to guess, whether or not the two hands combined will support a no-trump bid; conse quently he will be in no doubt as to whether or not he should go on with his bid. When the doubled player's partner passes the first round of bidding and the partner of the doubling player makes a bid, as generally he will, the original no-trump bidder, if wishing his partner to bid a long, weak suit, may himself double. This double also constitutes the negative double and asks the partner to make a bid, as he can support any bid he may make. If he does not desire a long, weak suit bid from his part ner, it is clear that he cannot sup port such bid, and it shows more plainly than ever the wisdom of the partner's passing on the firat round of bidding when his suit is numerically strong only. The rea sons governing the particular policy this player should adopt in each of the cases under discussion are so manifest that they should readily appeal to a 11 players of average ability and perception. There can be no doubt that the introduction into the game of the ! neeative double places possibilities AQS Y 743 K J 8 A B 10 6 5 S K63 Z 5 4 2 A J 9 5 4 6 3 2 , pa iiy . CI ' - ?, 4 "'F h J Vs V i! : V Ik It ': KAK I -1 s f -1 v? m: r v " Ji I ff x'v ' V -J - f - "C- A PHOTOGRAPH ha? just been received from Rome of Donna Maria Cristina Rossi, one of the leaders of the Women's Fascisti auxiliary. The photograph shows her wearing her black uniform. Miss Emma S. Redel, who has just been promoted from chief clerk to assistant secretary of the Minneap olis and St. Louis railroad, is said to be the second woman in the United States to attain such a high position in an American railway system. Miss Redel entered the service of this railway in 190? as confusion could easily result from its use. It is a play that beginners and players of average players' ex perience only should studiously avoid. The following hand has been sent me with a request for adyice as to the proper bidding: V A 6 4 3 " 6 K 7 3 2 J 6 5 4 . K Q J 10 9 6 10 2 10 8 4 A 10 . It was the rubber game, 24 to love, in favor of A-B. Z bid a club, A a heart, Y and B passed. Z bid two clubs, and A two hearts. Z went to three clubs, and A to three hearts; Z to four clubs, and A to four hearts. Up to this stage Y and B had per sistently passed, but upon A's bid of four hearts Y doubled Z, en couraged by his partner's double, bid five clubs. A passed, knowing that if ,he bid five hearts and Y again doubled his contract would be more easily set than when it stood at the lower figure. B, how-, ever, at this juncture took up the bidding and bid five diamonds. Z, who counted nine tricks and a pos sible tenth in his own hand with clubs as trumps and who inferred from his partner's double ' that he could give him a certain amount of suit strength two or possibly even one trick would suffice bid six clubs. This closed the bidding. Z made good and scored a total score of 334 36- for tricks, 48 for honors and 250 for rubber. Had A led the king of hearts or had Z played incorrectly to the sec ond round of spades, his contract would have ben" set by one trick. A led the ace and then the 10 of spades In the hope, I suppose, that he would get a ruff on the third round of the suit and thus set the contract. To the lead of the 10 of spades Z, who held the jack in the dummy and the 9 in his own hand these two cards constituting a fourchette covered with dummy's jack. This forced B to play queen. Z won with king and the 9 became the com manding spade. This card, with Y'8 ace of hearts, gave Z his contract. Had he played small from the dum my hand B also would have played small. Z, of course, would have won I with king, but instead of his 9 being j the commanding card, the queen, ! held by B, would have been In com- mand, and, since Z would have had ' no chance to discard this spade, ' he would eventually have been com ' pelled to lead it. This would have given A-B two tricks and set the contract. . . - A word now In regard to the bid ding. With so unusual a holding ! there are some players doubtless , who would have made a pre-emptive bid of three clubs. .While there is no rule advocating such bid in a ; minor suit, at the same time there ' is no rule prohibiting it. The hand is ,an unusual one, and to a certain extent warrants unusual handling. However, should Z start with three clubs, A would undoubtedly overcail .with three hearts, so the . pre Y V 7 2 , A B 6 Z AQJ966 ' " Q 8 3 2 , V 5 , A K Q J 9 7 5 4 3 . K 9 7 a stenographer in the law depart ment and was made chief clerk of that department in 1913. In 1917 she was made chief clerk in the president's office. In that position, acting as assistant to President Bremmer and Vice Presi dent Nash, Miss Redel frequently had charge of both the financial and the operating departments of the road in the absence of those two officers. Miss Bess B. Wetherholt, of Gali polis, O., is the newly appointed national secretary of the American Legion auxiliary, composed of moth emptive bid would accomplish noth ing, whide it might redound se riously to Z's disadvantage. Taking up the bidding as it really went, however, upon A's bid of a heart, B, who lacked heart help, but who had good diamonds, should have denied the hearts by bidding two diamonds. This also,' would likely have had little or no influence upon subsequent bidding, as A, to a certain extent, doubtless would have persisted with his bid, despite the fact that his partner had denied help. Y's double of A's four-trick heart bid was made apparently more upon the number of tricks he expected his partner to win than upon his own holding. ' To be sure, he held four hearts to the ace and he had the ability to ruff the second round of clubs should this become necessary. However,, the fact that his partner had shown .unusually strong clubs would seem to render this of no appreciable value.. The double, strict ly speaking, cannot be said to be sound, though it undoubtedly did have the effect upon Z of encour aging him to persist with his bid. Had his own suit been less strong, however, Y's double, which gave unsound inferences, could easily have led Z to bid his suit once too often. Mill Town Moved by Army Tanks and Barges. Idaho Tillage Shifts Location When Lumber Plant Bonis. LACLEDE, Idaho, Dec. 30. Laclede has its own version of the old saying, "If the mountain will not go, to Mohammed then Mohammed will go to the mountain," and the result is that this thriving little mill town is being transferred in tact to Dover, Idaho, about' 12 miles north of here. In the case of Laclede, the "moun tain" is a big lumber plant located at Dover. Laclede plays the role of "Mohammed." A few months ago the lumber plant that was responsible for Lac lede's existence was wiped out by fire. For a while it looked as if the town would go out of existence. Just 12 miles up the river, Dover faced the same possibility, but for a different reason. Dover had a big lumber mill but the supply of tim ber in the adjacent territory was exhausted and the mill had been closed. Heads of the two lumber com panies involved got to thinking tbe situation over and decided they had better get together. The company owning Laclede purchased the mill and nearly all of the buildings of Dover. Then preparations were made to move Laclede on river barges to Dover. In all there were more than 50 buildings to be moved. An army tank was shipped to the scene. Buildings were put on skids and hauled to the waiting barges by the tank. When the barges arrived at Dover they were met by another tank, which moved the building to its new site. The work of moving "Mohammed' is said to be progressing rapidly. Over 30 of the buildings have 1 already been moved. ers, wives, sisters and daughters of Legion members and of men who died in the service. She was ap pointed by1, Dr. Kate Waller Bar rett because of her record as secre- , tary of the Ohio department. Mrs. Allen Dulles, wife of the head of near east affairs in Wash ington, is one of the most charm ing members of the capital's offi cial set. Mr. Dulles recently suc ceeded Warren Delano Robbins at this post and Mrs. Dulles has quick ly taken her place as a prominent hostess in the official and diplo matic set. Famous Prison in France to Be Torn Down. Saint Lnznre, Historic Woman's Bnatile, Ordered Razed. PARIS, Dec. 30. The Saint Lazare prison for women, which is both famous and notorious in the annals of French history, has been ordered torn down by the municipality ot Paris. It was in this prison that during the world war certain well- known women spies in the pay oi Germany were detained, often pre vious to execution. Mata-Hara, the red dancer, spent her last days in the building. . Before the war the gray walls of mis oia cuiiveiit neiu in uunua.s, such women as Madame Cailiaux, who shot and killed M. Calmette, editor of Figaro'; Jeanne Weber, the strangier; Tnerese numooiui, wnu wa3 charged with one of the great est swindles known to recent French history, and a long list of other women involved in the criminal an nals of 19th century France, When the walls of this prison have been replaced by a smiling garden there will have disappeared one of the most remarkable buildings of Crnno fmm h rwiint rf vifiiff of" historic 'association. Founded in 1110 as a leper house, five centuries later it was taken in charge by the monks of the order of Saint Victor, who; abolished the leper house feature and used the building as a monastery. During this period of the building's history the great military and literary figures of France frequented the gardens. Then, for a brief 30 years, it was used as a political prison, and with the coming of the French revolution, in July, 1789, during the famine, the place was broken into by the mob, looted for food and set afire. Under the Terror, Saint Lazare again became a prison, mostly for the detention of men and women of prominence previous to their exe cution. Shortly after that time the building was converted into a wom an's prison. Earth Wobbling on Axis, Says Scientist. Greenland Said to Be Moving: West 20 Yards Per Year. LONDON, Dec. 30. The earth is wobbling on its axis, according to Colonel P. Jensen, the Danish scientist, who returned recently from a degree-measuring expedition into Greenland. He reports that Greenland is moving westward at the rate of 20 yards a year. This seems to confirm the recent reports of surprising climatic changes at It is now established that there is a periodic shifting of the latitude of the north pole. The movement is difficult to detect because of the small area of the pole about the size of a tennis court. Some authorities say the poles are gradually changing their positions, and that this alteration of the world's axis will in time mean that regions which are at present Ice bound will become warm and habit able countries. -