AUSTRALIAN GIRLS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1424, 8 November 1923, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN GIRLS.

ADELAIDE FOR BEAUTY. Following the storm of criticism which has centred round Norman Lindsay’s pictures now on exhibition in London—one of the Sydney papers spoke of them facetiously as “rude nudes”—conies the judgment of James Ashton, one of Australia’s most distinguished artists, on the Australian girls. To the Adelaide girls he gives pride of place as being the most beautiful of the girls of all the Australian cities. His rhapsody is evoked, not only by their beauty, but also by their grace. Melbourne girls, he says, while they might be “the well dressed people of the Commonwealth” are “careless in make up and fretful in gait.” Enter the Sydney girl. James Ashton sees in her no redeeihing graces apparently. She throws her clothes on. Obsessed with th« latest sensations and the spirit of rush, she adorns her face in a hurry, and much of her amusement amounts simply to exhaustion. The Perth girls, he says, are not so giddy “in their facial gymnastics,” but still they cannot compare with the Adelaide girls, whose manner is so serene, whose gait is so good, and whose character shines in faces which are not defiled with paint and powder. The Brisbane and Hobart girls he leaves out of his calculations. Like the violet, they blush unseen by this artistic critic.