| Show A AH All Men en Are Polygamists at Heart Expert Says Warns Wives to Beware of Plato I Clifton Crawford Who Wh Ought t to Know Says Outside Love LoveIs Is Disastrous By Jane Dixon Can a husband husban have platonic friendships with women Depends I upon the hus hus- band One will cT say yes another no And by hi his I answer you will be In on exactly I what wha t sort of life diLi k Vi baT l' l is s leadIng lead lead- leading lea lea-I Ing before he hei i h. h ices es tile me use a 65 for Rockville Center As kS a rule though I believe this Plato fellow Is a I sadly overestimated overestimated mated bird JANE Clifton So says pp t T T T. T Crawford he Of the gorgeous sense of humor and the happy outlook on this complicated experience called life Ufe Mr Crawford knows Once sometimes twice every day for forsi si zb six days of the week he faces the dis disastrous disastrous dis- dis results of three platonic friendships Of course its it's all in a a. play but what is a play other othel than Life dressed up in stage clothes with a few extra lights thrown In to give It color Th The name of Mr Crawfords Crawford's experience experience expert expert- ence with this platonic business Is IsMy isMy isMy My lAy lAdy Friends three Friends three of them It is all about a wife who doesn't do anything but embroider guest towels and worry about the cook and wear common sense shoes And about a husband who makes a a. flock of money and has no place to spend it THE TEN-DOLLAR TEN START The two start life together on the traditional ten ten dollar dollar bill By reason of the wife's economy and a trick of fortune in the matter of manufacturing ing Bibles the original ten multiplies with speed Poor misguided wifel wife She is havIng having haying hav hay ing such a smug comfortable time with her lier petty economies she hates to give them up So wife goes on being dowdy and husband goes roes out to his branch offices and is discovered by three very personable young women who consent to allow husband t to make their burden of buying clothes from Fifth avenue a trifle easier Merely platonic clothes you under under- stand They have such sad stories I this tantalizing trio trio and and such vivid imaginations You see said Mr Crawford In ex exI explaining ex- ex I the husband now current at atI atthe atthe the Comedy theatre he was rather I an easy mark sort of invited trouble No regul regular r fellow would be taken In InSO Inso Inso so easily by adventuresome young la la- la dies The platonic part of these friendships was all on his side His young oung ladies ladles knew a lot more about Bacchus than they did about Plato However seriously speaking I have an Idea real friendships free from the sex equation can exist between marl man marland and woman today who are Interested in the some same work Business friendships friendships friend friend- friendships ships you might call them Women have become an all accepted factor in the worlds world's work They compete compete com com- corn com pete with wit men on a basis of merit meet men often outstrip them in the race I have no doubt many men and women are thrown together every day in the course of their business pursuits pursuits pursuits pur pur- suits without the question of sex disturbing dis- dis them In the least A few years ago woman might not have gone about her work with so little interruption we had not forgotten she was a woman wom worn an an Now that she has emancipated herself herset she may enjoy a a business friendship on the same basis basis' as a man And the social side of platonic friendship I suggested can that too be free tree from complications 1 Crawford the merry smiled He as assumed assumed as- as the guileless look the innocent and badgered air of a boy that boy that same look and air which has made him a first favorite of American playgoers SOME MEN MIGHT Some men nien might do it he said sard the the sort of husband who arrives home for dinner every evening at seventeen minutes after 6 6 wet or bone dry and wid who passes up the sport page pace of his evening paper because there is nothing In It Any husband who skips p. p pulse beat or LCt crowds ds in ln an extra on one n no now w and then takes a chance when he gambols long with old man Plato He is liable to find himself In the same boat as Jim of My Lady Friends Friends' middle Friends middle of a big storm in a rowboat and both oars overboard rd We spoke of the touch of at pathos in a scene belonging to to Theresa Maxwell Maxwell- Conover who essays essay the part of the spendthrift wife in Mr Crawfords Crawford's Play The Husband of the spendthrift wife wite after complaining she ia is ruining him winds up by telling her how charming she looks There is sincerity sincerity sincer sincer- ity In ire the husbands husband's voice and a tear In the wife's as she answers Every I woman likes compliments from men But when they come from her own husband why she knows he means them I If It wives could only absorb this tru tnt lam ism sm and If It husbands ands could realize Its worth Men who compliment a married mar mar- ried ned woman have for the most part one of two motives The most co cornmon com common corn corn- mon Is to create an Impression of high social polish by passing out airy persiflage The other motive Is deeper and darker in dye If husbands were I more thoughtful more moge generous with their praise wives w would not seek I worthless compliments elsewhere If your wife looks better than usual if I she wears a a. becoming gown tell her about It She will wUl be as happy over your husbandly attention as was Mrs Maxwell-Conover Maxwell in the play story What did you think of the three pieces of advice ad handed to the wife by the three platonic friends of her husband hus bus band after she was made to realize reaUze the I folly of being too saving I asked Mr Crawford alias James Smith It was pretty peppy poppy wasn't It and right to the mark too came the re re- re ply I hope hoie if there are any wives like Catherine in the audience they can write shorthand The They ought to take w ws s p Jk Iii v CL f. f alD wl the girls girl's advice down word for word and commit it to memory NATURAL POLYGAMISTS Here are the lines recommended by Mr Crawford for placement and practice practice practice tice in the life of every wife wite who desires desires desires de de- de- de sires to hold hoM the love and interest ather of at her husband Catherine the wife wife wife-rm rm curious to know what it Is that makes a a man like James forget himself Julia one of the platonic friends friends friends- Mrs Smith all men are alike I Lucille the spendthrift wife wife wife- They're Insects Julia to Catherine Before Catherine Before I go let me ceo tell you you and and I speak from three experiences Every man is a polygamist by nature and a child at heart His wife dwells on his faults his sweetheart tickles his vanity His wife talks his sweetheart listens You'll excuse excuse me Ive I've an cia n appointment with a very attractive man exiting Im I'm going out and listen to him Catherine to Norah and Gwen Owen the theother theother theother other two ns You You s-You You girls are so clever No Gwen Mrs Smith Any woman can hold a man If Jt she knows how Catherine Perhaps CatherIne Perhaps if she's clever cleverand cleverand cleverand and beautiful But a plain woman woman woman- Gwen Plain Gwen Plain Why youre you're be better ter looking than any of Us bs if it you only were wise to yourself Norah to Catherine What Catherine What I could do with that thai hair hall of yours Gwen feeling her waist waist Aid And d a perfect thirty sh If she he only had some clothes Lucille What Lucille What Ive I've always told Cath Cath- erine Spend their money for them The more expensive you look the more they treasure you I Catherin Catherine I wonder I Norah NOTah coming to Catherine Catherine Mrs Smith dont don't forget what I told you you you- i remember that flannels may keep you warm but It takes silk to keep a husband husband husband hus hus- band warm So much for the lines What does Catherine the dowdy wife do She reforms She goes forth and acquires a regular Elsie Ferguson wardrobe And when at the end husband finds the folly of platonic friendship and Inthe in inthe inthe the warmth of his gratitude with his I arms around his rejuvenated wife sighs it wonderful dear Were We're going to spend all our lives together to to- together gether Catherine sagely replies Yes dear and all an of your money I looked across the tea tea table table at Crawford He He was chuckling He Ho wore the look of little Willie who has just hooked the last red apple off the sideboard and gotten away with ItI itI itI it I wonder Crawford the Jester I wonder Yonder if it any wives do go out of the theatre and start and and start spending husbands husband's money Ill I'll bet I many a a. one ordered that fur coat she had Just about decided she couldn't afford Wouldn't it be a a. Joke if if- if Yes wouldn't it There must be a couple of ot dozens of hus husbands ands a day wishing Mr Crawford did not have such a keen not to say costly sense of humor But the wives wives well well they Just naturally naturally nat nat- love it |
