Show M Monocles F First Used To Aid Army Officers Monocles have a use They really have a purpose In life other than to prove a a. man Is European or to get a laugh on the vaudeville stage In fact they were Inverted and first used by men who had a more serious purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose in life lite than merely to screw their faces aces up on one side trying to hold the glasses In place According to David Torrence well known actor the American prejudice against monocles is due to a misun misun- Ameri America a l. l has always considered the monocle as s a bit o 0 oi foppery said Mr Ir Torrence when hen as a matter of 01 fact Us its principle is quite a sound one Many men have one rood J eye and andone andOne andone one weak weale one ono The was de desIgned designed designed de- de signed for the purpose of f leaving the theone theone theone one good eye unhampered by any cov coy ering ring In most European military servIces servIces ices it Is against the tho regulations for an officer to retain his commission whose sight requires him hint to wear glasses There is no regulation against an officer one glass however toni tom g e of r wearing e For rg this monocles b o reason i became ci the ee cus cus- very I popular I I Mr Torrence ought to know beI be- be causo he ho is a Scotsman himself and feels perfectly at home wearing a monocle In the role of Torpenhow which he has just portra portrayed ed in a mm film version ot of Kipling's s 's stOry The Light Ut Failed produced for Paramount J George Melford |