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Show ISUB I b I ROSA IL I Movies and Moron THIS morning 1 talked with man who ald that the success of the movies wag due to the way the film producer! played Into the bands, or eyes, of the morons. I told him I thought that was not nice at all. It's not that I'm a bound for the eye punishment. which one gets from the shooting and kissing and pie-throwing pie-throwing which greet our wistful orhs whea we want a filmed play. But I do go as a matter of amusement, education edu-cation and bablt. I believe that the movie began as a Nickelodeon for It was run on a five-cent five-cent basis, but now It's a great Industry Indus-try like Standard Oil or C. 8. Steel. It has stork because people take stock Id It . But there are limits to the screen and yon mustn't expect It to educate you the way day school and night school da There's a moral censorship of the screen, so I have beard, but It seems to me that there should be a mental one, too. We don't want to have the conscience shocked by a low-toned performance, and we don't want onr brains to be stung by a low-browed ahow either. There have been and still are great . tnlnds which have devoted themselves to the stage Bernhardt, Duse, John , Drew, Mantell, Southern and Marlowe. '. Ton can't compare Hollywood names with these, can you? ' Ton and I want tn see a show with 1 some sense to It. We'll stand for all 1 the horse-play and monkey-business. the kisses and the plea, If only the film-maker will make the film seem j natural. We bate to be kidded by these screened fairy tales which are supposed to give ua real life. In the other arts the best minds ! set the standard of taste. The archi tect of the Taj Mahal or the Parthenon Parthe-non didn't try to figure out what the gang In India and Greece would like, lie gave them the Ideal In stone. The great painter haven't ever , acted like the boys who make op the coralo strips for the edification of thoughtless people. No, the fellows like. Raphael and Correglo, who flung the fancy brushes, gave people the best and let 'em take It or leave It The same with Shakespeare, whose old plays are still running, and Ibsen and Clyde Fitch. Even old Barnum gave something like an Ideal circus. But the movie has played down to low taste and when It becomes a movle-talkle, it may be shown op so that It will have to brace up to meet the demands of good sense and good taste. Every Kitten Has Its Day YES, she bas and this is the day. It's Mother's day once a year, but the flapper may claim the other 864 aa her very own. Then there art dog days In the good old summer time, but the kitten has whole calendar full of these purring days of the present .The way that the styles are figured out In Paris, If that's where they do ' come from, every girl has a chance to display ber charms. Even the plain girl can make a good Impression with these modern frocks to say nothing of hosiery. Ton see, it's like this: In the old days with the old patterns, about all you could see of a girl was her face, which was all tight If she happened to be pretty and nothing else. The plain-' plain-' v er girl who could shine tn a bathing suit where form counted, didn't have much of a chance, for one couldn't go bathing all the time. Rut the modern frock suits the plain girl to a T. Her face may not be dimpled, but she may be able to makeup for that with tricky ankles. Her countenance may not be resplendent resplend-ent but where form counts In the beauty game she's bound to score. Mother Nature Is certainly eccentric . when It comes to putting human beings be-ings together In separate bundles. She will stock a large bead with Its full face on s slender body, and try to pair off arms and legs when they are not at ell proportionate. j The contrast between face and form Is very noticeable In most women, although al-though now and then Nature will adapt the pretty face to the graceful body, but bow often the beauty of the village or town was not so proud of her shape, and how Just as often the girl whose face was not of the same candle power bad a figure that would make tbe Venus of Mllo want to reduce. . The girl who bas form with grace doesn't need to take any dust from the girl who has Just a pretty face but nothing about ber that would sug- - gest the dancer or swimmer. There ts charm about every woman no matter mat-ter how little she may think of the Impression Im-pression she makes upon her mirror. and these are the days when a woman's charm baa Its chance. Much of this supposed beauty bnsl-ness bnsl-ness Is not a matter of creams or powders, pow-ders, but just plain health. Thank goodness, girls, that yon and 1 can move about In a free and easy costume where handsome Is that handsome does Its dally exercises and practices proper diet to say nothing of proper hours. It's our Big Day, all right. If we will ' only realize it and make tbe most of '.. it .. ' ((S or tb Bell Syndicate. Inc.) |