MARGOT SURPRISING THE AMERICANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 10

MARGOT SURPRISING THE AMERICANS.

DISCUSSES MANY SUBJECTS. SAX FRANCISCO, March 14. Mrs. Margot Asquith, the wife of the former premier of Britain, in her lengthy tour of the United States, hae continued to startle the average Americans, and when she returned to New \ork from her visit to Canada Margot was interrogated upon sonic of the most beautiful women of America. By all odds the moat beautiful woman she had met, was the Countess Minotto, daughter of Louie V. Swift, the multimillionaire Chicago meal packer, was the opinion expressed by Mr;. Asquith. "I have another lovely American in ray memory," said the famous British •author. "Your Miua Leiter, of Chicago, who was Lord Cur/.on's tirst wife. She was one of the most beautiful women f ever saw.' , Ilhe discerning English noblewoman gave her reasons for choosing the American born countess: "Mine, Minotto," flic eaid, " has beautiful features, face, and skin. When beauty is a gift of tho Creator it is as fair as art. Always beautiful women have elegance." She had this striking description for loveliness: '"Loveliness — a plain woman can be lovely. But beauty is beauty. I carry no illusions." Margct, "grandmother of the flapper." interviewed and writter about in a score of cities in the United -tates nnd Canada, was not satisfied just to read about herself in American newspapers, she eaid. She was eager for news from home—England. "Your newspapers arc all right in the way they have treated mc. but the 'top' of them I.* abominable. I never read the first sheet, which i< usually fillet! with murders and suicides, Charlie Chaplin"c paiil» or Mary Pickford's dogs. They screech and bellow—the front pages, not the dogs.' . Between puffs of her ever-present cigarette. Mrs. Asquith gave views on international affairs. the British Cabinet crisis, American prohibition. American cities and American traits in general. To American prohibition. Margot raised a warning finger and admitted she had told President Ifardin~ what she thought about it. J

"At balls and parties in England the boye and girls don't get even this much drink," die said, holding two lingers of her right hand very close together. ''Here " I understand it is common practice since prohibition for young folks to drink and get drunk at dances. But when T am travelling and am thirsty, or am having my dinner, and ask for just one sip of brandy, T am told it is impossible. "When I first came over I thought I would admire prohibition, but now that T have seen how it works. I think it is u'.iominable."