The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-12
If Feminine movies" Voted Would Wallace Reid
Be the Next President Francis x. Bushman Vice.
President and Harold Lockwood Secretary of State?
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

Xk7 nth three of the worlds most ia
wv nous masculine screen beau
w ties playing in our midst to-
day, Wallace Reid at the Strand, FRANCIS
x. Bushman at the Trianon, and Harold
Lockwood at the Rialto, a conversat ton
which took place at a little dinner party
recently is recalled between a very pop
ular woman in Birminghams smartest set
and one of the most cultured and elegant
men.
After running the gamut of corversa-
tional parsley which Is needed to ga1nish
a perfectly appointed dinner, the woman
said in breezy, clever way:
81 just hope Mr.. Wilson will he re-
elected in November; I should like to see
him President second term
"Ah, indeed" said the man, his eyes
twinkling as he saw an opportunity to
tease the pretty charmer into giving hef
reasons, political and otherwise, as to her
choice. And why?"
ooh oh-er-er" she hammered, real
zng that she had gotten into things
deeper than she had expected to. oh
err, just because everybody says he's
would like for him to be President again"
"Oh," leased the man, Il thought that
if it were left to the women Wallace Reid
would be President, Francis x. Bushman
vice president, and Harold Lockwood Sec
rotary of State.''
All of which brings up the question to
my mind as to whether or not masculine
beauty is a drug on the market.
If you are to believe the signs of thu
times as witnessed by the rush of people
to the different moving picture houses
Friday to see their favorite masculine
beauty on the screen, you'd probably say
that the thing that brings the highest
price in the stock market of popularity
is beauty.
Now that's all right and good enough
for film artist, but have you ever
stopped to think how you'd hate to have
professional beauty for a husband?
wouldn't you rather be dead than be
the wife of any of the three beauties
mentioned for the next movie cabinet?"
What woman of your acquaintance
would like to be married to a man so
good looking that every other woman is
trying to get him away from her?
The answer is-'none;" but perhaps we
are begging the question: as the teach
er used to say when we didn't know our
lessons.
Beauty is a fine thing-a wonderful
thing-and it's price is above rubies; but
it isn't everything.
The girl or the man, since it's manly
beauty we are discussing, who has it not,
usually has something else in it's place,
for realizing that he cannot attract by
looks alone, he makes himself attractive
in other ways.
Have you ever seen woman who read
1.-The Beloved Vagabond, who didn't fall
in love with that delightful shiftless,
careless old reprobate?
And" Septimus' had precious
little to recommend him, isn't he one of
the most adorable characters in modern
fiction?
And Sirney Carton-who had no looks
to speak of-dont you love him ten times
more every time you read "a Tale of Two
Cities?''
of men friends whom must comfort, for
we can't all be Wallace Reds and Fran
els Bushmans, and Harold Lockwoods-
I want to say that there is a positive fas-
cination in LONELINESS: I have seen it in
positive uginess; take the Mona Lisa"