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A aoftly-snug, serenade and the low strumming of a guitar beneath" a tropical moon in old Mexico may All the average. American girl's dream of a romantic courtship and cause to believe that she is: missing a lot in life.
But she isn't---because the average American girl has it all over her Mexican alster when it "comes to playing the game of love.
No less an authority than Dolores Del Rio says so, and Dolores should know because this beautiful daughter of the republic south of the Rio Grande gave an interview that "debunked" the game of love as it is played in her romantic land. American Girls Excel.
Dolores votes for courtship, American style, every time. More. over, she shatters the illusion of the Mexican senorita's world-mas- tery in the art of the "come-hither" technique by the frank admission that "American girls are the most expert coquettes, the most artistle Birta, in the world."
"I thought I kuqy something about the game," she said with a flash of her dark, liquid eyes, "but American girls can tepchi pointers any day."
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"Weary camouflage" ITC the words Dolores uses in describing a romantic Mexican courtship with its soft-voiced guitar and all the other trimmings. She contrast, it i unfavourably with the direct brand "of American courtship wherein the boy friend dashes up in his sporty roadster, honks for his girl to come out and they nee away to attend dance or enjoy an ice cream sin.
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Getting the Desired Man. "Of course, n typical Mexican courtship is romantic and beautiful, ! but how weary one gets of keeping up the camouflage that it is the minn who does the selecting and then pursues the girl he wants to mariy," she said, “Any woman knows that, short of cross eyes and
hump, any woman with brains can get the man she wantat,
Sonie- times they do it.with cross eyes and a hump and without any brains nt all. But in Mexico, the tradi- tion of man, the pursuer, still pre- Vails."
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, NOVEMBER 30th, 1929.
MEXICO'S MOST BEAUTIFUL SENORITA. DOLORES DEL RIO TALKS ON THE GAME OF LOVE.
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the chaperone still within earshot and eroshot. The bride's father gives his consent and they become engaged, but still the darned chaperone hangs around. Not until the marriage is held does the watchful chaperone. relent for even one moment. Then, and not until then, are the cumbersome social traditions and ground-rules of a romantic Mexican courtship ended.
American Girls Free.
"But look at the American girl," says Dolores. "Suppose her parents talk about a chaperone. Be your age would be her firat answer. Take it from Mias America, there
would be no chaperone.
"Free as birds of the air, these American girls seem to a convent bred Mexican girl such as I. I thought at first the Lord must have. had them in His special keeping be- chuse most of them seem to land on their feel right side up, after what from a Mexican point of view seems taking all the chances in the world.
"Now I know it is a combination of the Lord and the American girl herself. Fifty-fifty, I guess.
Mexican gentleman] "That certainly does 'eramp your of guitars beneath the Iron-barred knows boys in general as a Mexican
4 makes a delightful pursuer, at that.style,' as the Amerlean' slang puta windows."
Everything is strictly formal and it." the parents help a lot,
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Sometimes the lover goes to the Usually, after a call or two, the serenade, with the guitar slung The young couple usually meet young man finds himself desperate-aver his shoulder by a broad, bright at him. ly in love. No Mexican gentleman' ribbon. Nobody laughs Dolores, and the young man asks he isa't desperately in love, he once, themselves. And such lovely some social event, explains over gets in love any other way. If All his elders have been in love the privilege of paying a call. When isn't in love at all. He begins to songs they sing to the soft necom- he does call, there is always
shower the girl with flowers and paniment of those guitars!.. chaperone hanging arbund.
randy case he cannot give But suppose, the lover isn't musi- Chaperone! The
jewellery or other objects of value cally inclined--suppose he can't "The mother or some nicmber of before they are engaged.
play a guitar? What then? He The family is always within ear "But he can' serenade her," says hires a small orchestra of four or the "Either the Dollores, “and he does. shot," anya Dolores.
The five musicians, they hie: to chaperone sits in the same room serenade still flourishes in all its lady's window and the serenade is with them or in the next room with glory in Durango, where I was born on. The lover stands by, beaming an apen door, and unobstructed-there isn't a moonlit night that satisfaction. view.
you can't hear the soft strumming' At Inst the lover proposes-with
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Sunlight vs. Moonlight. "No American girl has to ambush her man from behind a barrier of tradition and conventions. She swims with the boys and plays ten- nis and golf with the boys. She hears their confessions and binds up their wounds and frequently can lick them at their own game. She girl hardly knows her own brothers. "She can take care of herself and does, under social conditions and situations that would drive a Mexi- can father and mether to suicide.
good Freedom in here and she makes
"She picks her man and gets her man. She kids him into making." love to her, even. She doesn't set her courtship to music, but she en- joys the greatest courtship in the world.
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"She has 'debunked the game of Maybe she has taken some love. of the moonlight out of it, but she certainly has let a lot of sunlight | into it."
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