Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-14 | Page 7 | By Their Necks You Shall Know Them, Says Movie Character-by-Sight Reader

BY THEIR NECKS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM SAYS MOVIE SIGHT BY READER h 1 r I v p J 4 4 b 7 s 4 4 y V V w 9 I 4 u By FLICKER FAN What's your neck like That is the question Hollywood stars tars and would-be would stars alar are asking on one ne another these days The new game was started by a startling theory advanced by Sol Polito topnotch topnotch topnotch top- top notch photographer The neck Is is' the best physical Index Inex In- In dex ex to human character and personality per per- according to Photographer Sol ol who has squinted through a camera amera range finder tinder at almost every neck in Hollywood The hands hand eyes lips and feet dont ont mean a thing when Sol starts figuring out the tho kind of ot a person persone he e has for a new target for his camera amera lens A A. woman whose head and shoulders shoulders ders ers are arc separated by a long archIng archIng arch- arch Ing ng neck is just the opposite of hat you might think If It the structural structural tural ural form of the neck is like that the 10 woman is usually cool aristocratic aristocratic aristo- aristo cratic dignified lignified and more than normally intelligent Sol says To prove his point he asks you to o look at Mary As Astor tor Her picture just about convinces the hard to convInce that Sol Soll 1 right If the long arching neck widens slightly at the base of ot the tho skull I Its It's s 's a sign the owner has something that tat some say is totally missing from rom Hollywood Hollywood brains Bette Betto Davis is Sols Sol's proof of ot that statement It gives the blonde star atar practically radically a monopoly on all the attributes tributes If It the neck Is short and thick th he owner has a n. sympathetic disposition dispo dispo- according to the Polito standard standard stand stand- ard of judging character It also indicates maternal qualities easygoing easygoing easygoing easy easy- going nature and much affection he 10 says Constance Bennett of the famous helter elter Bennett family amity has haa a aeck aneck aneck neck eck that is a perfect blueprint of at her ler character if it tho the Polito system systems la Is s used He He analyzed It and found length intelligence mobility tact The he direct junction with the head i indicates ex extreme Independence and stubbornness He is right again say hose thos who know their Hollywood Polito says he ho knew James Cag Cag- fey noy ey would be boa bea a top ranking star the first rat time he saw v him on a movie movIes s et t. t Ho e describes s his hIs' n neck ck t Short inclined to be thick through rear of ot skull overhanging IndIcates determination stubbornness stubborn- stubborn ness ess courage and Intelligence Dont Don't get a ad stiff neck trying trying- to observe your our head carrier from all I angles f t Ii-t