The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-27
Captivating Conversation with a
Frivolous Frenchn2dn, LDh0
Declares Our Girls Detest Loue,
but Adore Filtration, and
Haze LDOOden Souls

/ NINA HELD, accompanied by actor. has be,
"A giving odd little pIaylet called "Le Oh
AmericaIn," at the Theatre Marisny, in Par
rhaps the oddeet thing about 1t Is that Anna He
presents herself for time highly respectful
ne rcan woman and makes herself the spokeswom
American womanhood's IDEALS manners, eIeaanc
d standards Of conduct in conversation with
voIous Frenchman. The payIet follows:
Gamma Held Sings Il Cannot Make My Eyes
Behaye)
-HE FRENCHMAN-how true that is.
ANNA HELD-'rhen you understand
- English?
THE FRENCHMAN-Not word. But
have heart, and when one has a heart, "a man
thinks OF his wife and little ones" as the song
says. No. don't mean that exactly, but when
one has heart there are certain words man
understands without knowing the language
ANNA HEIDI don't think you are serious.
Monsieur.
THE RENCHMAN-Oh yes, indeed. am,
only | don't look it. AS soon as |
saw YOU with With your dsshng air your splendid
rather French adored you.
ANNA HELD-You talk about the American
ohic as II you knew VAIL all about , it? Do you
THE FRENCHMAN-Oh, yes; know all
about them, believe American girls speak
English and go in for every sport. They walk
like professional pedestrians They box like
lack Johnson. They detest love. but adore
Irritation and they play with senti-
ments like tennis balls. They avoid kissing for
fear OF microbes. and in short they
OF hybrid neither man
ANNA HELD-Thanks. That is pretty
portrait.
THE FRENCHMAN-Oh it is quite life-like
ANNA IlEID--lt is gross and clumsy carl
cature. If YOU knew the true American girl,
lowed with every feminine grace and every in
tellectua accomplishment. You would immedi-
ately become her admirer The American girl
you described is taken from the French must
cal comedies, where the part is played by the
funny woman OF the company. The real person
is very different. She lacks OF the seduc-
tive graccs OF the French woman. She as-
Stimulates them easily. hut I'm adapting them
her temperament and the conditions of her life,
she shows very intelligence You are
trying to keep woman as she was ages ago
Modern women in France and in Europe gener-
ally. however bold. however DESTROYS OF
cipation they may he. always held down by
prejudices. by family and social customs, by
whole mass OF basic principles OF education and
routine. Behind the French there are
twenty centuries OF slavery from which she
cannot free herself.
THE FRENCHMAN--Oh. they free them
selves from it quite easily.
ANNA HELD-Dont You believe It, The
French woman Is oppressed imprisoned by
ancestral customs and manias. Morally she
still wears the crinoline.
THE FRENCiMAN-Pardon, you exaggcrate.
ANNA HEID-She does not walk through
life by the side OF man, but under his protec-
ton That is outrageous.
THE FRENCHMAN--You think so? 1t ap.
pears TO me quite natural.
ANNA IELD-For twenty centuries you have
kept woman under your domination You are
hideous. odious. frightful!
THE FERMENTATION. say those words OF
love again
ANNA HELD do not libel tho French man.
| paint him as he is Under tho pretence of aid
and protection he distorts all the natural In
stincts OF woman. He bends them to his will
TO his tyranny. He has formed her into very
attractive creature. made up of submission.
charm, dissimuat ton. feline who has all the
seductions, all the graces or the cat family, but
all the tricks and cruelty also
THE FRENCtiMAN--Tha is not very fatter-
Ing TO the woman we have formed but catch
the likeness. She is like cat, curling her
sell up prettily now mo:ing with graceful sinu-
osities, playful. her Ga ready to scratch. but
she is also quick to lay her head shout
der with purrng of tender words. Naturally