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Show Hill HEED HOT HIVE BRAINS, . AGTORSAYS Leo Ditrichstein Assert Intelligence' In-telligence' Unnecessary; . Likes Them Beautiful i CHICAGO. Oct. (Fy I. T Beautiful and dumb thn Ideal woman! Intelligence Is unnecewBHry In a woman. H defents her uuriKiee In life. Anna Held' eyes did more fr the haiM'J nea of the race than Ida Tar-bell's Tar-bell's epigrams, 1eo Diirlchstein. hero of many stage paramours, and who In his character-tratlons character-tratlons gives the Impression of hav-Ins; hav-Ins; gaied on wine when red, women When pink and song when silver, thus broke forth today with his version of what's -what In a beautiful womsn. "Woman's place In t he scheme of affairs Is to create and preservs illusion," illu-sion," the stage star dclared. "And as for me, I prefer the Illusions which, pair of dumb though soulful eyes might Inspire to the materUI kit k I miaht get out of the activities of an Alice Paul or Kmallne Pnk hurst, for xample." .Looking over the field of entries for woman who would measure up to his standard' of an Ideal. THtrlchstein I shied away from Hollywood, "They say our screen stsra are beautiful and dumb. he wild. I could love them If they were, hut the trouble la they are not only dumb, but , they are not beautiful." The Don Juan of the atage declared ; movies. i "Faces on the screen all look alike," he said, "as f they were all members . f the single tyie, which began to bore me fifteen yearn ago. j "But the hoautjee of the legitimate stage ah! they are different. I can love them, dumb as they may be. I They don't need brains. ( "A woman with brains Is as dls- ! tressing a spectacle as a camel with I four humps." I |