Women of Exceptional and Unusual Beauty

What has happened to the exotic woman? The woman who doesn't look or dress or act like anyone else. The woman who intrigues. The woman who, like Scheherazade, can wrest a kingdom from an obdurate man. (From top: Anna May Wong, Mata Hari, Lena Horne, Dimitra Arliss, Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Isadora Duncan.)