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‘Short Men for Fame. Empire Ball Reveals Queer Facts. Spring the Best for Discoveries’, Daily Express, 19 April 1924

Most of the great men and women of the past have been of small stature.

Miss Olga Nethersole, organiser of The People’s League of Health, has discovered this during her preparations for the Empire Ball, to be held at Lord Leverhulme’s house in Hampstead on April 30.

Mr. Philip de Laszlo is to paint the portrait of the guest who goes to the ball in the costume most representative of the Empire or of one of the Empire’s great men or women.

“Famous men of ancient times who lacked inches,” said Miss Nethersole to a “Daily Express” representative yesterday, “include:—

Horace                        Diogenes

Aristotle                Attila

Plato                        Alexander

Epicurus

“In later ages we find that all these people were small:

Joan of Arc                Heine

Swinburne                Wellington

Erasmus                Queen Elizabeth

Nelson                        Beethoven

Charles Lamb                Napoleon

William Blake                Spinoza

Queen Victoria        Wilberforce

Mozart

“Most men of genius have been unlike their parents in figures or features. Many have been left-handed …

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25/11/2007