Show CIGARS AND ROMANCE the recent action of a large motion picture company in forbidding its male stars to smoke cigars on the screen was attributed to a theory of the movie magnates that cigar smoking was unromantic movie officials explaining the ban intimated that the lustre I 1 of their younger stars was dimmed so to speak by fragrant cigar smoke A critic of this view rises to the defense of cigar smokers in this fashion it would seem that the movie mens prohibition was based on a badly warped conception of ro mance after all romantic qualities in men are shown in their habits and characteristics and since cigar smoking has become almost a symbol of masculine success and power it indicates an addition to their romantic appeal rather than a subtraction from it ever since tobacco was first rolled and smoked cigar smoking has been allied closely with romanticism from the early adventurers in america to mod cm captains of industry heroes world fliers and ands of young men in universities the cigar has been a mark of manliness and romantic appeal if this critic is correct as seems more than likely the motion picture men seem to have made a grave error in that they have confused romanticism with effeminacy in the american males makeup make up and by so doing have been uncomplimentary both to men and women |