Show Heroines Mistreat Men In Cinematic Lives By JOHN JOlIN TODD HOLLYWOOD INS INS Theres There's Theres a new style of heroine poking her energetic head into the Hollywood spotlight spotlight-a a girl who winds i i up and takes a healthy wallop at hero or villain and is altogether the complete antithesis of the clinging vine I Away back in movie history the the only heroines who ever got into violent action with men were sweet young things who fought for their honor There were afew afew a afew few active girls but they always played in serials More l Sufficient Self-Sufficient Gradually the girls became more Heroines became woking goals And then a few years back the screen introduced a few tough birds like James Cag ney and Clark Gable who startled audiences and thereby got famous by clipping a lassie on the chin and pushing them around in general Today many fair fall heroines are mistreating the men in their cinematic cinematic cinematic cine cine- matic lives For a a. starter take a look at a newcomer named Helen Walker who plays opposite Alan Ladd In Lucky Jordan She has a startling startling star star- beauty and brought plenty of acting ability from the stage but the prime reason for her grabbing off this prize role as her debut in films was the fact that she is well-built well athletic and physically believable as the sort of maiden who fights back at the tough character character character char char- acter played by Alan In fact fRet atone atone at atone one point in the story Helen brings a club down upon the head of Ladd with such resounding force that he is immediately dispatched to dreamland Woman Handling Then there is Ginger Rogers who will bring cheers from many a girl by soundly woman-handling woman a wolf in itt The Major and the Minor The wolfish chap is Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Benchley and when Ginger finds out he has lured her to his apartment under pretense of getting get get- ting a scalp treatment she flails him vehemently and adds the neat touch of bopping him over the head with a raw egg Claudette Colbert comes up with what is probably the most ignominious ignominious igno igno- minious method of mistreating a aman aman aman man in The Palm Beach Story She steps squarely in Rudy Vallee's Vallee's Vallee's Val- Val lees lee's face and manhood's pride I she was permitted to do the stepping in her bare feet Fred MacMurray who Is quite a husky gent is completely and literally floored by Dy Paulette Goddard Goddard Goddard God- God dard in The Forest Rangers when she leaps off a horse right onto Fred Fred and and knocks him flat Even Veronica Lake who weighs a mere 98 pounds uncorks a a. swinging right which lands ker- ker plop on the mouth of Brian Donlevy Donlevy Don Don- levy in in The Glass Key Yep the girls are certainly turning turnIng turn turn- Ing the stone age tactics upon themen the themen themen men these days |