Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-19 | Page 3 | Gay Lothario Talks of Modern Debutante

Gay Lothario Talks Of Modern Debutante Dancing Mothers the sensationally sensa- sensa tonally successful play by Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Goulding which is now on view at the Maxine Max Max- Ine ne Elliott theatre New York Isa is isa isa a delightfully arraignment arraignment arraignment arraign arraign- ment of certain phases of mode n society The gal est Lothario In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York stands up before the millionaire millionaire million million- aire alre father of the seasons season's most popular popular popular pop pop- ular debutante and asks him in no uncertain manner to exert his authority authority au- au to I keep his daughter at home lome The Lothario is Jerry Naughton ton on played by th tho good looking and John Halliday Kittens Kit tens ens Is the spoiled debutante whom Kit I Helen lelen Hayes Impersonates and Henry Stephenson Is Westcourt the theather father ather of the w wilful little lad lady Says Jerry erry to him Why Vh not face facts You know all this talk about unprotected bachelors like myself pursuing women women women wo wo- wo- wo men and trying to get them In their clutches c Is a lot of nonsense n. n n Nine l tl Oft th times imes out of f ten e it Is the woman who pursues us They have neither ethics nor morals morals and and little sportsman- sportsman ship hip Once they get their eye on an attractive man they take every advantage Advantage ad- ad vantage antage of their sex to round him up and up-and and the younger they are the 1 y less ess gc compunction 1 Ctt they J have att about b I In It doing it If they cant can't do It in I one way t they e do It 1 in n another no h This town own n is Infested n st with It a bunch of dangerous kids kids just just out of the tho whose cradle radle whose parents seem to be I too oo busy to warn them against I j I playing laying 1 W with h fire e and something ething ought 1 to 0 be dof done eab ab about nU it I It I IJohn I IJohn John Halliday was reC recently asked I If f he thinks Edgar Selwyn and Edmund Edmund Edmund Ed Ed- mund Goulding are right In the tho allegations allegations al- al legations made by Jerry Naughton In their pla play Of course every Intelligent person person person per per- son knows that Its It's the woman who ho 1 does tho the courting whether she's a I 1 debutante or a woman as old as Mothers Buddy Po s irr Mr the Halliday heroine r replied of li Dancing with with- h 1 I OU out hesitation I I Ian ri S But the tho queer eer thing is that such an Idea should be applied only to modern society Woman has hall al aN I ways been a huntress Back Bacle In n the days of our coy grandmothers she sh shwas was no less the pursuer than now The only difference lies In the methods methods methods meth meth- used Once a woman has made up her mind to get a man well man well she gets him that's all The femInine feminine fem fern mine sex MX is the mater master maker A century ago woman used more I subtle methods than she uses today toda but she went out to win win and and did just Just the same Today Its It's the woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man of experience who makes the most successful pla players ets In the game of love The debutante age alte to which Jerry refers In his arraignment of or Is Kittens In Dancing Mothers the raw age Consequently Kittens Kit Kittens tens methods fall fail to win the man mansho she sho wants while Buddy udd her own charming mother has acquired In her forty years just the subtle charm with which to it