| Show m so IE Elsa Maxwells Maxwell's Isa m l Daily Particles of Patter So much has been written i I about what men like about women wom- wom en from Solomon Solomons s wives to Powers Powers' models that we ne know every spasm of a thought that has ever passed through what we courteously call their minds But seldom has anybody troubled himself to find out what women think about men what they like want dont don't want love hate or or fall forWell for Well my fine feathered friends throw our your chests One woman speaks Women today want he men they want Clark Gables Gary Coopers Charles Boyers They wan want t brawn but bra brawn w n oiled with just enough tact to cook up und unde under un r. r d de der e r standing What t the they theydon h e is y J don dont don't t want is ism ism m o 0 n o a 1 l fire eaters or s phrase j u g- g gt t The They y may be amused by clever men but they fall in 1 love o 0 v e with strong strongmen men men who Miss Alax Maxwell ell dont don't talk too much Subtle women like Charles CharlesJ J 1 Boyer because Charles is virile sure of himself and at the same time suave and dextrous More Afore indolent women like Clark J Gable who knocks them down props them up knocks them down n again then goes to the corner for another r woman oman woman Softer women like Gary r. r who is solid firm yet kindly Lush plush women like George Raft who says it with th a gat Something primitive primitive primitive primi primi- tive in them stirs to the melodrama melodrama melo- melo drama of his challenge Say yes es you pampered moll mollor or Ill I'll pump you full of lead f I But times were not always p thus Fashions change in inlove inlove love as in motor cars After the thelast ther r last war for example women went in for softer men for forthe forthe forthe the lounge lizards lizards' tea tea- hounds f sheiks and finale hoppers finale hoppers t Before that was the era of f the profile Grecian-profile matinee idol There was Lord Byron who made melancholy a fine art There was Maurice Costello And there was the to matinee end matinee idols our own john Demi-john Barrymore Ironically Ironical Ironical- fy ly enough on one of his matri- matri I onial jaunts Jack married Maurice daurice Costellos Costello's s daughter a psychological wa way of stealing t s the old man mans man's s thunder thunder I I But beauty in the long run has been more of a handicap to men than men than an asset It leads them into the trap the gods set for Narcissus Narcissus and and they end up transfixed and hypnotized hypnotized hypnotized by their own profiles Few handsome men have held w women omen spellbound long They are good goodon on the sport short run a palpitation palpitation palpitation tion attack a momentary heart flurry But the strong plain knowing men do the panzer work work the the Casanovas the Sven- Sven gals galls the the the Robert Brownings Take Bunty Bacon the broad- broad shouldered husband ex-husband of the lovely Cookie Young A few years ago Bunty couldn't dream of the success he would have with women today Hulk wasn't in style then T Suffern Taylor is another case in point One day I asked Daisy Fellowes Fellowes Fellowes Fel- Fel lowes whose fabulous Riviera yachting parties were like a midsummer nights night's dream of Cleopatra and who is supposed to have more notches on her venal enal gun than any other woman living what type of man she liked best Well Elsa she said to to be quite frank I think the male malewe malewe malewe we talented women have the greatest weakness for is the fireman who thinks himself invulnerable perhaps because because because be be- cause he seems to be hitched in inseparably inseparably inseparably in- in to some other woman Whenever I spy one I feel the hunting instinct rise in me Naturally you suppress it I said Not at all she answered answered an an- I explode it I start Off for the kill I put on my best dress my most hypnotic make up make like like war r paint Then I enter the arena as as demurely demurely demurely de de- as a little dove How do you proceed I 1 asked The technique Daisy said is a state secret but this much I will say as soon as I Isee Isee Isee see the mans man's fiancee tremble if if he has a fiancee fiancee I I know that Im I'm on the scent Its It's a thrilling feeling like tasting absinthe for the first time Soon the man asks When may I come cometo cometo cometo to tea tea then I sharpen the knife What is the end I asked As a lady you should marry him of course course Marry Daisy exclaimed Hes He s on his own After two or three teas teas' I get bored Then poof the game is over Daisy looked very reflective with a that cat-that- smile swallowed the swallowed the canary Press Alliance Inc |
