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Show iWHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW GENTS MAKE IN HOLLY WUULi . . ' : -1 : ; ' : : I : : Homely-Faced Beans Able to -Get Big Break By HHEILAH GRAHAM (Copyright. 1U7, for The Telegram) HOLLYWOOD, Feb. J Thsrs ar more homely looking men in Hollywood apart from th star than anywhere slss in th world. But In spits of this handicap, thsy do very well with the glamorous, lovsly ladiea of the screen. You see, there ar not enough gentlemen to go 'round both Margaret Lindas Lind-as y and Janet Gaynor have been minus a beau for several months and at every party there ar two women to every man. . Th high-salaried females must tak what they can get and Ilk it That they usually lovs It I du to th avsrags msaculin brilliance of mind, rather than of face and body. Moat male escorts are shorter than the stars they marry or sscort A great number are bald. Several resemble th hairy type of ap. Th majority wear eyeglasses. Lltvak Cited Director Anatol Lltvak, preferred boy friend of blond, beauteous Miriam Mir-iam Hopkins. I stocklly built with masses of iron-gray hair and a guttural gut-tural speaking vole. He I also charming, well reed, wsll Informed, and, what I more Important from the Hopkins viswpoint understands ths fsmale of th species. Before Csrols ' Lombard graduated gradu-ated to friendship with Clark Gabls, tha man with whom she went to ths raess. tennis matches, t al, was" Writer Robert Rlskln. who lacks hair, helrht snd Impressive facial features. But Bob ha a good (peaking (peak-ing vole, a sns of humor and a mind Ilk a needle point Previous to the Lombard era. Rlskin was escort es-cort to Glenda Farrell, who now rreerve hsr smiles for Assistant Director Drew E hereon, pug nosed, heavily built of medium height but owner of an entrancing smile. Until William Powell courted Jeen Harlow, th plump wc-platinum blond was engulfed In a cycle that Included her late husband, mlddls-agd mlddls-agd Paul Bern, of quiet disposition, Indlsttntruishahls In a crowd, and Ex-Husband Hal Rosson. short, inarticulate, in-articulate, and owner of a llttl fac on which grows a mouss-colored mustache. brlmer I Boas Th secret of Writer Delmer Davra' success with Kay Francis lis in leadership. Delmer Is boss, which fact lands a beautifying halo to his red hair, belligerent face and llrhtly swaggering walk. Norman Krasns, writer-producer and Hollywood sscort In chlsf of dainty Sylvia Sidney. Is short slight, dynamic opinionated and owner of an inferiority complex that manifests mani-fests Itself In seeming srresslve-nejx. srresslve-nejx. He also wears glasses. His predecessor In Svlvis affection Producer B. P. Schulberg 1 middle mid-dle agsd. thick t with a strong, fleshy fsc. thick llpoed. shrewd,' deeply set eyes, and I fairly bald. ' Anothsr producer with hair beginning be-ginning to look conspicuous by Its abaenr. who ha also don wsll In femlnln pulchritude, Is Arthur Hornblow Jr.. husband of Dream-Wife Dream-Wife Mvrna Loy. Hornblow success suc-cess with Myrna Is partly the result re-sult of lifting hsr from th oriental Into the occidental crsn category. But rhor because he poeasases an excellent spsaklng voice, which, in hi wife's opinion, la bettsr than good looks. Rudolph Bleber, husbsnd of Marten Mar-ten Dietrich, stoops slightly. His face Is pale, hla figure stolid. But tie must have aomethlng. because, despite bis long absences from Hollywood, Hol-lywood, there haa navsr yet been talk of a divorce during ths 13 years of hla marriage to Marians. Willis Goldbeck, wb sometimes sscorts MarUn when Sleber la la Europe. 1 short, inconspicuous, gray haired, Witb a preference for gray aulta, Jim's N Har Jim Tlmony. aa whom Mae West bastswsd her aatilae fee a long period. pe-riod. I reel farad, black fowled and very Irish. And a dangeroua parson with whs as t pick a quarrel. , Aesthetic Reuaea Mamouliaa can aria the) favor f any film star hs ehsssis frssa Carts t Oertmde Michael Ha wear ysgls that alia ewattsNsellr new a hia nee. He t U1L Sara, twt aa baarlsonse. His haa aa Arsaeniaa aeeent He a "arty." leal highly creative. crea-tive. Aad k ha a raalet-aroof way rh w sense. Ihxm Dvahar la a very tiny girt. Val tner as evea less fawtag In tr asaa wha frequently takea her plana Cart Lassjiml Jr. who suffers suf-fers fraaa indiavettea. at aatramely Barvaoa and rastleaa. ' Dr. Joel Prassmaa and wife. Clan-4ette Clan-4ette Colbert, ar among th hsp-! hsp-! couple la Hollywood. But aa one could call the fairly short slight doctor a good looking man. ZHstlnctly racial features and eye-wlsssis eye-wlsssis are offset somewhat how-aver, how-aver, by kind, humorous syss. Bett Davis' cx-bandsmasi mats pix-fae-tall Harmon Nelson looks mere Ilk a happy college boy than Jhe husband you would expect for at prominent film actress. Hia hair Is usually uncombed, hi face freckled. Valentin Parera, whom Grace Voore promised to love, honor and bey six years ago. Is not altogether ad looking if you like the 8pantsh. lark-haired, awarthy eomplexioned type. He ia of medium height and apeak very little English. Frank J. Ross th missus Is Jean "Arthur ta a short slightly built eal aetata operator, snub nosed. )uiet, unobtrusive, wb prefer to remain ailent unless spoken ta first The best looking husband of any film star. Captain Philip Astley, do not llvs ta Hollywood. The tall, soldierly mate of Madeleine Carroll, could gst a job In picture any tlm oa his looks. Hs resides la Ens land, eonUnttng himself andi his wife with short visit to the adonis-lacking, Adamleas film cityJ V |