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Show Mother Knew Art of Vamping, tar Say Thoas whs think that vamping- la an art whicb has been developed In ths present gsnsratlon should llstsn to Barbara La Marr, who holds that It was as widely practiced among Victorians Victo-rians as It Is today. Miss t Marr Is not d for hsr ability tn portraying vimn roles, havtnr snarled with marked success ths part of Antoinette da Mauban In Rex Ingram production of "Ths Prisoner of Zenda." She is now : enacting Lady Putnam, small town version of the species. In the Metro-RL 1 production of "Qulncy Adams Bawyer." a plcturtcatlon of the novel by Charles Felton Pidgin. In one of the scenes of the picture, fames like poatofflce. I spin ths platter and blind man's buff are played. "Those games were just made tn order or-der for the coquette of our mothers' time." says Miss La Msrr. "The aver- i see girl of today would blush If she were asked to Indulge In any one of tbess paatlmen. fancy! Kvery boy In the party kisses svry irirl and eveyV girl can so arrange things, especlsrlly In the s;sms they call poatnff iceVlhat ! she csn kiss Ay boy eh likes. -Mothers snd aunts havs a,way of ahaklng their heads over wliat they connlder the hopeless lack Att conventional conven-tional behavior on the oart of their daughters snd nlecee. I'm eurs almost every one of thou yflus;htere snd nlecss would hs chiirrlnM to know of the carrying on of the previous a-eners-tlon; of ths carefully laid jtlans lo'sl lure that were wade beneath the sw-i sw-i fullv circumspect exteriors: ,of ths : vamplnr that,ss dons In the rlothlnr I of Innocence snd. most partlrulsrly, of j ths Bamesthat were plsysd." |