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INNOCENCE OR EXPERIENCE?
A "MODERN" WOMAN'S VIEW OF AN
"ETERNAL PROBLEM.” A
This article is a frank and sincere jing ground, to the vast benefit of statement of a point of view con- both sexes, but it is amazing how corning marriage which is held by much of the old Victorian worship emancipated" and educat- of Ignorance, which they pergist in ed young women of to-day. Often calling Innocence, still holds! How they are women of brilliant ability; inny hoary beads will be shaken, but the average reader will no doubtfully, warningly, when 籍 doubt argue that as a rule those maiden whose few brigt years be who acquire
13 experience in fore the world have been studded several love affairs too often and with a string of affairs, whose that they have developed at the reputation is somewhat "blown same time that instability of tem- upon " (to use" another amusing perament which fills the divorce I phrase of past days), marries a courts.
Desirable Young Mant
I am aware I am courting disaster Pity that nice young So-and-So, when I declare that, on the whole, dear Lady Spoof's son, is marry. the happiest marriage are usually ing that Blank girl! She's got a between people who have had many terrible reputation-and he might previous love affairs, rather than | huve married that sweet little Azno the contrary. I think, if one aur- Dash Such a nice, unspoiled child veys with a dispassionate mind the--So-and-So would have been so life-stories of most of our acquaint much happier with her!" anges, tỏ say nothing of the far more famous life-stories of the great ones of the world, that it cannot be denied that on the whole, Inno- cones has shown a very poor list "of successes against knowledge, and. that by far the happiest marriages are those where not only the man, but the woman also, has had a con- siderable amount of "sex-experience to draw upon before marrying!
The Sweet Young Girl has been lauded down the ages ns the ideal mate-but, in sober fact, is she!
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Nothing of the sort! Dear old- sters, you were never so entirely wrong in your life Kitty Blank's." somewhat hectic young life has un doubtedly been starred with affairs; some mere trivialities, some more serious, one or two, perhaps, at which she has severely burned her. pretty, manicured fingers-but burn- ing them has taught her a lot!
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SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY USING A HANDKERCHIEF
WILLIAMS
IS OUT PAYING A CALL WITH PARENTS. MOTHER SIGNALS PLEASE TO USE HIS HANDKERCHIEF
MOTHER SIGNALS BACK HE MUST HAVE.SHE GAVE HIM A CLEAN ONE THIS MORNING. TURNS POCKETS.
OUT.
1929.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
SEARCHES POCKETS, GOES ON SEARCH-
ING POCKETS.
SIGNALS TO MOTHER HE HASN'T GOT A HANDKERCHIEF.
THROWS MOTHER TRIUMPHANT LOOK
TO SIGNIFY THAT HURRAH, HE'S FOUND IT
Taught her things that will help John. weary with a day's golf.
Anne lie awake and frets when | her to manage So-and-Sio shrewdly, more wisely, and with far ealls out "G-night, old thing." and greater patience and tolerance than
goes to bis own room and sleeps- pretty, spoilt Anne Dash, who knows nothing of companioning a
without a bedtime kis-Kitty, man save flirting with him, dancing, | knowing that a man's love is not or playing golf or tennis!
proven by eternal demonstration of
No text-books, good advice-no- or woman the patiener, tolerance, it, merely sings out a blithe "Good- night," and cuddles down to sleep herself!
To start with, a girl whose ex- perience of men, sex; the huge and staggering emotions that must be met and handled in the field of love, is limited to a few somewhat hectic little firtations, a secret pash" for a popular film star, and the de-thing but sheer, bitter, personal vouring of works on birth con- experience can teach either man trol-how, I say, can a girl an en-humour and understanding neces- tirely and piteously ignorant hopesary to living happily and content- to make a success of that most dif- edly with another person-how can ficult of all relations, marriage 1
Miss Innocence, Probably she is not greatly helped by her young bridegroom, although his ignorance is not likely to be abysmal as hers-there are few young men who reach marringeable age without two or three furtive little affairs that teach them at least something of the technique of
love 1 4
The single standard of morality for men and women is slowly gain-
Anne. Dash hope to pit her sily, little, untested theories against the practical wisdom of "Kitty, bought by many a slip and stumble on the hard way to knowledge i
Kitty knows that there are times when a man must be left alone! Anne, having no experience to draw from, whimpers, and is outraged if her man, instead of seizing her in his arass the moment tale is left alone, sometimes merely grins amiably and slips into an armchair with the paper,
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PRODUCES A CURIOUS CRUMPLED THING WHICH PERHAPS WAS ONCE WHITE BUT WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN USED LATELY TO POLISH SHOES WITH
MOTHER SIGNALS TO HIDE IT QUICK AND PASSES HIM HER HANDKER. CHIEF
(Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndicats, Inc.; 4-30
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If John is bearish over break- fast. Anne either grows fretful, angry or tearful again; Kitty, know- ing this is merely another, of the many moods of the male, shrugs philosophie shoulders and lets things 5o; Kitty, in the words of the poet, has been there before! Anne is jealous and suspicious of her man's
much knowledge, invites them to woman friends-Kitty, why with WEST OF ZANZIBAR.'
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for good, while Kitty props it open, FINE FILM AT THE QUEEN'S. and says sweetly, "Quit if you like, my dear I don't want any man to stay unless he wants to!" knowing. quite well that the surest way to keep a man at one's side is to tell him he can go whenever he likes! Kitty knows men-since, despite the moralists, the only true may to manage the man is to have studied other men, and studied them close
Lon Chaney. has one of his favourite rôles again in "West of Zanzibar which you can see to- day at the Queen's. Possibly this type of role, in which he appears
ly Actual and technical experience 45 a man with a broken body and
of sex teaches, drastically but sure- creased soul, may not be preferred
ly how to separate the parely phy sical emotion from the myriad other emotions, which, taken all together, one calla love..
Only by experience can one dis. tinguish that real love which, though it has physical passion (rightly and of necessity) as one of its many components, is as fond profoundly and intensely spiritual from the dangerous imitation that traps so many unwary and ignorant feet-the love that is merely bodily attraction, and must inevitably flicker!
Dear elders, why warn us, with these dour head-shakings, against casual "fairs? We need them we ought to have them, whatever you think!
Han As He Is.
by Mr. Chaney but there can be
these parts. no two opinions about his gift for Whether or no they provide either an edifying or pleas. ing entertainment is another matter. However, unless you much dislike Chaney, or are of a very nervous or fastidious disposition, West of Zanzibar" is a picture which you should not miss and which I hope all Gla producers will are and take to heart, for it is one of the best constructed films I have seen. The earlier part of the story which is explanatory but quite necessary to the main action, is told in a series of quick, telling episodes with only sufficient script to carry the story from one to the other. Each of these episodes is a carefully con-" structed little cameo of value in it- self.
The story is rather horrid, a typical Lon Chaney yarn, and I need not go into it here, except to!
They will rub these silly pin feathers of ignorance, intolerance, and self-conceit away from us; teach un humility when, we are "let tell you that much of it takes place down, as, of course, we shall be,
in an African jungle which is very from time to time-teach us how to other large parts are taken by well represented, and the three handle the great and subtle game Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, I called Sex, over which, as long as and Mary Nolan. Chaney acts his
we remain so-called innocent," we blunder so terribly!
rôle of the unfortunate “magician,"
Let us learn by hurting our-paralysed from the waist down, selves severely, if need be-se that with gruesome truth. You are re in the long run, when we do truly minded of his other big part as the and actually fall in love, we can Hunchback of Notre Dame but he meet our man eye to eye and face plays better here as he keeps his to face, knowing what are likely talent for the purely horrible more to be his weaknesses, and, thank in check and in consequence heigh- heaven, knowing how to handle tens the pathos. then! Knowing him very much like ourselves really; neither god nor brute, but an ordinary human man, the man, we want-and so setting out in life together, secure, content, knowing, at last, through our own experience of life and love, how to keep both him and happiness Kafe for alwaysf
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