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Show CECIL B.DeMILLE PRODUCTIO . metro-goldwyn-mayer /tudio. culver city, california April 19, 1930 Mr. Preston Iverson, Editor - 1931 Utonian, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Mr. Iverson: In years past I have judged hundreds of beauty contests. The job you sent me, however, was decidedly most difficult of them all. The level of beauty was the highest of any contest to come to me. All the girls were unusually attractive. My judgment was based on all but two of the photos sent. These I had practically to disregard as they were in profile. It is almost impossible to judge beauty or personality with accuracy from photographs made at this angle. The types I have chosen cover the following subdivisions : 1. The best sports type 2. The most interesting personality (so far as the photograph shows) 3. The best demure type 4. The prettiest and most vivacious 5. The best ingenue type 6. The most intellectual. Detailed explanation of my choice would be boring. In the case of the types my reasons for selection are more or less obvious. However, there are certain fundamental things one looks for in making such decisions. Expression of the eyes is perhaps the most important. Per-fecion of features is really the least. You have asked me to judge living and breathing girls, not statues. And beauty in movement is more important to a film director than beauty in repose. Number four, whom I have judged to be both prettiest and most vivacious, is a very interesting type. Her eyes reveal a great deal of personality. She seems to combine splendidly excellent physical attributes with that mental poise and strength without which there can be no real beauty. Accept my thanks for your courtesy in permitting me this interesting, though difficult, experience. Yours very truly, |