TN Tet ns And the Very Unexpected ason Why the Jeo Sirprusing Truth About --== © Britains Pretest pat After Studying this Photograph of Miss | Winifred B. Mackintosh the Judges Voted Her the Most Beautiful Girl in England They Awarded Her the First Prize as "a tribute to intellectual and spiritual beauty to an extraordinary degree." : Below, Miss Peggy Bayfield, of Charlton, London, Winner of the Second Prize Section LONDON. HE most beautiful girl in Great Brit- ain is--a hopeless cripple! All England is amazed at the news--amazed and filled with a great pity, for neither judge mor public knew of Miss Winifred B. Mackintosh's afflic- tion 'when she was crowned queen of i uty. Sr Now that chance has revealed the sur- prising secret, the heart of England goes out to her with even greater intensity than did its Until a few days ago Miss Mackintosh was merely one of thousands of English who entered their names and eir photo, in the Lomdon Daily Mirror's beauty competition. L The M 's contest was no ordinary affair. For past year there have been so many controversies, opiniens and dis- cussions abut beauties of the stage, 80 Ey A A Sablon gad a bape cities. n popu- ig with international TE When the Daily Mirror announced it intended to settle the question of "Eng- _ land's prettiest girl" definitely and de- . there was a hum and a rush from one end of London to the other, : Any 'in Engl in le to The prize would be five hun- Jounds--a small fort in itself! And Hifi Ory. y Tne persoaages than .; Mr. Rich- mK RE "all R. A ol Sir William Llewel- famous artists! e Mirror was swamped with photo- graphs. Celebrat- ed actresses and models did not hesitate to sub- mit their pictures along with those of little shop- girls and cockney queens. Friends of several of the prettiest society women in England put them in the race. The Mirror announced it had re- ceived thousands of photographs, repre- senting almost every city and hamlet in Great Britain. The contest was discussed everywhere. In a fever of interest the candidates and 'the public awaited the result. In the little village 6% Hoddesdon, in a secluded part of the county of Hertford- shire, in a little cottage off the main-trav- cled road, lived Miss Mackintosh and her father. She read of the Mirror's contest, as SVly one did, but she admitted, long after the denouement, that she had no idea of entering it. "The first suggestion," she said, "came from a trained nurse living near us. She asked me if I had a photograph. I told her that I had, but as it was an expensive one T had no intention of wasting it by sending it in for the Daily Mirror com- petition. Le next night a found that daddy had all my i out in the dining- room. Eno y afterward we went to Bournemouth A our holidays, and when I got there I learned that my Photograph hac been published in the ly Mirror. As it had appeared in the edition we ret at home, I never even saw the pub- ished portrait." Miss - Mackintosh went back from Bournemouth to Hertfordshire, never dreaming .that thé arrival of her photo- Ea ee isi a 80 of a y_She had no notion that, even then, Sir Will- At ight, had won the never eos fae artists, movie -- Mackintosh great beauty prize stirred public curi- "Who is she? What does she she live? We ol Ri 20% oR inch, Wo Sueondts'sos - OR Newly Crowned Queen of Beauty Refuses Every Tempting Offer to Dance and to Be a Moving Picture Star Miss Mabel Coleman, of Ilford, Essex, Winner of the 7 First Prize in 11- to cal promoters and other beauty specialists. "We can't help that," re- plied Sir William Orpen in a public statement. "We have chosen not only a beautiful face, but a beau- tiful soul. I am convinced of that. We were all agreed that Miss Mackin- tosh was the most genu- inely beautiful girl, even among such an assembly of pictures, where the stand- ard of beauty was extraor- dinarily high. "Our judgment," he add- ed, "was based solely on the features of the compet- itors. All other considera- tions, such as figure and hair, we ruled out. We simply sought a lovely face, and ance we had seen Miss Mackintosh's photograph we * never changed our first opinion go her, though pe repe y compare er with others." "She surpassed all oth- ers," oS Mr. Richard Jack. "She is & "purely British type--a real Eng- lish rose." beautiful feature of .the competitors," said Sir Will- jam Llewellyn, "but even there Miss Mackintosh was superior to the rest. She has a spiritual type of beauty that is really very n Such tributes from such distinguished authorities whetted interest in>Miss that was known of her was her name, her facg and the fact that she lived at Hod- desdon in Hertforfishire. ; Motion picture end thea- : trical agents to get pusy. Letters and telegrams Yollowed cach other rapidly to the little ertfordshire cottage." Miss Mackintosh was offered one hundred pounds Sigh to dance at a leading Piccadilly aret. picture producing company in offered to star her in a serial "The eyes were the most . ut Section II. for Girls in the rg 15-Year-Old Class. x thriller. A famous magazine cover artist wanted to paint her as the modern Aphro- ite. But no answer came out of Hertford shire--none, at least, save brief little notes, thanking managers and all for their interest, but stating that Miss Mackintosh had to decline any offer to appear in public. It was one of the more enterprising mo- tion picture "scouts" who finally, quite unintentionally, unearthed the cause of Miss Winifred Mackintosh's strange re- tirement. He went down to Hertfordshire in per- son, determined to find this illusive girl, talk to her, persuade her, es her to sign any contract she wanted then and there. He found himself at an obscure little station off the main line. The 1 porter directed him on 'his road. ere was no conveyance. He set off walking in the pale October sunshine. "A little green house with an old-fashe fotiod lich gate," the baggage man had said. Twilight was drawing on when he found himself at his destination. There was ne mistaking the little greenhouse. The movie man climbed the front steps and knocked. "Come in," said a gentle voice. He entered. There, seated in a chal in darkness lit only by a blaze from the wide fireplace, was a beautiful girl. She was entirely in shadow except for her face. And that, half turned to him so that the profile was warmed by the dane- ing flames, caused him to pause with a gasp. The pho h had not lied. She x; indeed, an "English rose"--the loveli the expert had ever seen in a long ex ence with evi and variety of lov liness. The realization of his hope completely drove his manners from him for the mo- | ment. He stepped forward, exclamations of enthusiasm tumbling from his Tye. He Janted, nearer the fire, to see full ace. . He saw it--Ilovely as the profile. And then he saw, too, resting on the floor at the foot of the chair, den from the door by the shatlow, but plainly visible now in the firelight--a pair of crutches!