A CELEBRATED GIBSON GIRL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12593, 8 September 1906, Page 7

A CELEBRATED GIBSON GIRL.

Tho engagement of Miss Cam Hie Clifford, "the original Gibson girl," to the Hon. Henry Bruce, eldest son of Baron Aberdare, wae recently cabled. Miss Clifford is one of the best-known of "modern stage beauties, although hardly entitled to be called an actress, inasmuch as her artistic or dramatic talents are not considerable. She first attracted. public attention as the winner of a famous beauty show in .New Vork L a theatrical manager having arranged a competition for girls who thought they could be the flcsh-aad-blood embodiment iof the Dana Gibson type of girl. Although admittedly not :he greatest beauty in the show, Clifford was awarded first pla<rc ac the

nearest approach to the type, and, » such, her picture ha» been largely reproduced throughout the world. She played the part of Masie Manhattan, of New York, in the "Prince of Pilaem" at Mr George Muegrore's theatre, the fihaftesbury, London, in 1901, and "created ? quite a sensation without speaking a word or einging a note." "The Prince, , Mike "The Belle of New York," was "a small gold mine to Mr Musgrore, who holds the Auat-ralkn rights, and has promised to- produce it in Australia. Mies Clifford was next engaged to apnea r as one of the Gibson girle in The'Cateh of the Season." The Hon. Henry Bruce came of age last year.