Show OGDEN THE STA NDARD-E- AMINER X i f ' '' IS llF F - Syfjftrp M i 1 11 "Sf ' ' !' li fl II 1 ii h fl lr wa UH& I I! II P P p - is I ' ' 4 4 They Do It to Startle to Be Different and from fTze Harmless Ambition — t j ' ¥ Tl ! 4l S TV y? i rift i : ? ! I j OS"" '-- o fjBe Lifciyien Say At Jtlghfl! Do Yoq -Recognize Him?" Thisjis Not a Uindp Prince But Investigating Experts S 4 i At Right: Margot Asquith the j Countess of Oxford in False Black Beard Turban and Oriental Costume k tzsty&l Which Shej Wore at a London Fancy Dress BalL Left: Teddy Beauf ort as an ' i Nillson Motion Picture Actress in Masculine Sports Clothes -- (V A i Anna Q y - s y r r " $ ? 3k W J v 4 Dandy Old-Fashion- ed rr-- i X 1 jiMWl! Mill" 0 L Vr y Hi - It Cut i a-w- iJ n ! Above Corner: Miss Heather Thatcher of London as aa k English Johnny J a jv W CSt r 1 ill t' s 1 lfcc' ' ill j AJ M ''t- I - v4-rvr- l SI II " II - 1 - "v "X "yv (' 41 ' y i M i it t y s y? 51 t 1 J S ' I ? v- - a " V Pretty (But You I ys sCS - The living room in the Gamma page-siz- e ng II man! Bobbie: (taking magazine) Listen Stupid (Reads caption) "The Honorable Mrs Vy vyenne Ploshford of Twiddling ton-onThames snapped at the fancy dress ball given by Viscount Goutling at his suburban estate Wryacres last Wednesday" Bobbie and Reggie: 1 t I lit - -' j HE above dialogue between two collegra boys might very well hjave been caused by the 'photographs you see on this pdge of a group of famous womea some of them real beauties in weird masculine clothes Some of the ladies are American others are English but they all have done everything possible to make themselves not only masculine but ugly for an occasion They have cucceeded in disguising every trace of their feminine appear-anc- e TT ! Why? Trained psychological observers siy there has been a pronounced trend during the past few years toward! the development of a fad among - " 1 i?°Z ' Undoubtedly Mrs Patrick Campbell Margot Asquith (the Countess of Oxford) Alice Lake the pretty motion picture actress and Miss Alic0 Mann the Washington society girl wore the grotesque clothes in which you see them simply to be different They wanted people to "Oh I" and "AhT and wonder who they were and perhaps such a beauty as Mrs Pat Campbell who ia renowned for her dramatic eccentricities received a thrill from the certain! knowledge that her friend would be amazed by her covering her smooth white cheek with a bristling black ugly man's beard Also Miss Alice Mann who In her own person is charming demure and utterly fem-- i inine may have smiled triumphantly in advance' knowing how the men who admired her would draw back almost in alarm at seeing her in a rough hobo's costume which was carried to such realistic lengths that it concealed entirely her feminine allure But psychologists tell as that this mania of pretty women to dress up In the clothes of ugly! men comes from more than the mere pleasant "exhibitionism" and the desire to shock one's i friends and admirers In each of us they say there Is a deep-roote- d longing to be something different from what we! are The excellent comedian who has become famous by making! millions laugh always wants to play Hamlet the comic artist dreams of being a serious portrait painter the king on his throne longs to be a tramp swinging along the open - of a terrifyinglookingjtramp) Wossa use ma kin' the customers sixzlwitb pictures of such bozos? Bobbie: You're crazy That's a broad Reggie: xlsn't either Min And whatta " s s women for wearing masculine clothes not only for fancy dress balls but in real life (yawning over the St Valentine's number of a stately London pictorial paper) 'Sawful junk these limies print Jn their mags Wi do bet' ter here at Slowash with the Harpoon Bobbie Uke: Uhuh Reggie: (suddenly on the alert) Well for crying out soft! Get an eyeful of that Bobbie: What? (Points to — I 5 v i So the beautiful woman If she has become famous through herespecially is quitebeauty likely to have a secret desire to become per haps only for an evening — some figure diametri- - cally opposed to her fascinating ' mfmmm"emmmmmmmiamammmm§ "'"' ' fe-nini- t - A 40 This Indicated strongly by the costume chosen by Margot Asquith to wear at a recent fancy drdss ball in London The ball a fashionable affair given by Mrs Benjamin Guinness at her home on Carlton House Terrace brought out more! than two hundred members of the London haut monde all of whom knew Mrs Asquith well She wanted to fool them completely so they wouldn't know her and she did Perhaps without knowing it the psychologists say she satisfied a dream-longin- g that may have lain dormant Jn her nature for years — the longing to appear and make people really believe that she was a Hindu potentate But jtist why should Mrs Asquith a wfiter a charming hostess and the wife of one of England's former leading statesmen want to appear as a bearded Indian ruler Because say the psychologists such a ruler represents the mvs-ticism color and splendor — and power! — )f thel Orient and Mrs Asquith who is a most sensitively imaginative woman may very well have a sympathetic attitude toward sucb a figure Because in addition a Hindu prince is a man with absolute domination of hi subjects' a tyrannical Nruler and Mrs Asquith is a woman of great energy and power to command It Is 'well known that women rulers and women who Jong to rule often dream of themselves in the character of men or as doing masculine thfngs Queen Marie of Rumania has written how she dreamed of herself as a tiunter and Catherine the Great" of Russia used to don masculine! uniforms when she reviewed her troops Mary Queen of Scots used to slip into boy's clothes afor a lively night incognito in Aumuurga taverns This teeming ambition and oower to com mand is also shown in the character of Mrs1 Campbellt the actress who ts the ruler in her own world of the theatre selecting and pro- her own plays and often acting as the manager oi ner own companies a lob that most Actresses leave to men it does not explain the predilection j However for masculine garb exhibited by pretty little Alice Lake or Miss Alice Mann the debutantel Their lark in dressing upWashington might be traced simply to the remark that we so often hear women make: "Oh wish I were a man and could have the freedom men have" This remark is not made so often nowadays as It used to be because women have more freedom thanf ever before in history but the condition that causes it still exists to some extent Scores of Instances can be cited to show how this desire for the freedom that i3 issociated with masculinity has caused women to wear men's clothes I There sis no abnormal condition In most of these cases but simply a healthy longing for the liberty tht men have Often the conditions of a special environment literally force a woman to Above at Right: Stately Mrs Patrick Campbell the ramous English Actress Who Disguised Her Beauty Completely With the Beard Mustache and Clothes of an Old self i 'j - — " vw y"y Russian n Actor jL — - ' - "' v ! S S You Wouldn't Believe From the Above That Miss Alice W Mann is a Photograph Charming Washington Debutante But She Is She Disguised Herself as an Ugly Hobo at a Recent Fancy Dress Ball Given by the Former Ambassador to Russia an-duci- ng v ' Fashioned y f change to masculine attire and masculine personality simply to escape the tabus of society In line with this might be mentioned the custom of women writers like George Sand years ago of masculine names feeling" that their writingnder work would find better reception if the public thought it was the creation of a maru r Sometimes these "escapes from reality" and convention end melodramatically A few months ago Miss 'Jeanette Dover of Manchester N Ht left home to seek a job in New Ycrkl When she couldn't find one she put on a neat blue' suit of men's clothes and tried again But that only landed her in the police court Another young woman Miss Helen JonowskI of Brooklyn left home secretly in masculine attire hoping to beat her way to Florida But she lingered too long and too admiringly in a millinery shop and a clever policeman recognized her for what she was Miss Helen McNamara another'' Brooklyn girl set out from her home to hunt a job in a suit because "men are young man's college-cu- t paid so much more than women" A policeman decided "She was a girl from her walk thereby i giving Helen a tough break In Berkeley Cal Mrs Edna Brittendalt was left with four small children to support when her husband died She was unable co find work so she donned masculine clothes changed her name to "Ray T Sargeant" and met the desFor perate situation by obtaining employment years she made her living as a man until she was discovered In these four cases the force of circumstances Jed the women to change their clothes and seek either adventure or a living Here1 is still other case even more remarkable In the little town of vMena Ark there lived for cweniy-nv- e years a quiet competent phy eician Dr M V Mayfield The doctor was seventy-fou- r years old and had come from England e quarter of a century before Last year the doctor became seriously III and It was revealed that "he" was a woman She said that back in England where she was born her parents needed a son to protect property rights So they dressed her in masculine garb and she gTew np assuming a boy's role As time passed the habit became her own She studied medicine became a qualified phy sician and the habit of impersonating a man was "second nature" to her By the time she came to America the role had become so natural to her that she could not bring herelf to wear women's clothes or be known as a woman A similar case 'was that of Miss Florence Gray of "Philadelphia who successfully impersonated a boy for sixteen years She was reared by her grandfather who was something of an 5 ' IT Vs wyi t i road' a s Masked Rail in New York untr— j ' j Costume She 'Wore Recently at a v s A- in a Masculine THAT ' 'sf 5 Wouldn't Know it From This Photograph) Alice Lake the Motion - Picture Actress Reggie: " y r 5CENE: y5- y - eccentric wanderer and drifted about the try taking the little girl with him When she was four he became afraid that people would take her from him and put her into an institution So he dressed her as a boy When she grew up she heJd masculine Jobs driving trucks and at one time an ambulance Finally she was beaten up in a Tight-wita tough and when she cried she gave herself away Florence at the age of was persuaded to take over the role of tweniy a girl again but she remarked! sadly that she would miss much of the freedom she had had as a boy Additional astonishing instance be mentioned to show how women oftenmight turn to wearing masculine clothes for good reasons but enough has been said to incidate how deep' the longing i3 in women1 for the freedom and advantages that they associata with men - " " J'"" 1 " "J "' " ' ± i- "J |