The Washington herald., 1917-12-29

New York, Dec 8.-The wild eyed
moving picture directors are tearing
out their locks over the paucity
Of really beautiful men-the kind SO
popular with the romancing school
girl. The call to arms has taken
the pick Of the finn Apollos to the
training camps.
Broadway is shy on male beauty.
Any country boy who resembles Paul
Swan or the Hermes OF Praxitiles
can land a job on Broadway in the
movies, according to the directors.
Such a lad would be worth his weight
In sugar almost.
Most OF the women 60 to the mo-
vies. the statitiscians say. to eat
chocolates and feast their eyes upon
masculine pulchritude. Now there
Lou Tellegen, who holds many of
innate stage and the offers that have
been made him TO come back to the
screen are rivaling the Chaplin figures.
Ono magazine which circulates
among the actor folk contained the
following advertisement last week
Wanted: A perfect male animal;
young, Of the Greek type; refined,
flexible as to limb. infexible as to
character. Must be appealing to
women and not too irritating to
men,"
The next day the movie magnate's
office was crowded with the God-like
Narcissies. but not a one measured
up to the standard. There was not
a future Paul Swan among them.
1t is easy TO get the proper films
to surround a handsome movie man.
All that is needed is to call in some
scenario carpenters and drama atize
some subject like measles or defec-
tive plumbing. bill it as a sex drama
and then open the box Office and rake
in the cash.
1t is some job to keep up with the
whirling kaleidoscope life in Gotham.
II the visitor wanted to see every
thing that was going on in town last
week, he would have to go to the fol-
lowing entertainments: Twenty-Five
concerts and recitals; - lectures; Z
new plays opening; q playhouses al
ready running; big patriotic spec
tacles; carnivals; golf tourna-
ments; IS prize fights! horse and
dog shows; racing meets: L art ex-
hibits: q public hanquets: 90
cabarets and dinner shows. and 10
gown exhibits.
New Rochelle-made famous as the
town Forty-ive Minutes from Broad
way-is Frustrated by the expose
there Of vice conditions near the
training camps. The residents were
apparently in ignorance OF the ter
rible state of affairs until United
States officers swooped down on the
dance halls and found soldiers and
sailors intoxicated.
The conditions have given an i'm
petus TO the army recreation work to
which prominent New York men are
devoting their time. The effort Is
to provide wholesome amusement
and wholesome companionship for
men of duty. Among those interest
ed in the work are Pierpont Nor
gan, Cleveland Moffat, Nathan
Strauss and Judge Swami.
Seen around the town: A newly d.
vorced woman chasing a photogra-
pher out of a court room. A stage
NOcA hCNPSA SOiAiN " NOlh q blS
automobile. A Mexican ant coIlec-
ton In a Fifth Avenue gallery. A
prize fighter buying perfume in a
fashionable shop. A taxI-driver who
wears q monocle. A French officer.
with one arm gone, playing billi-
ards. A sea-faring man spending
his shore leave at the Aquarium.
Those unfortunate persons who re-
side in Philadelphia and work in New
York will no longer have the option
Of free seat in the club smoker.
but will have to pay for 1t II they
want to smoke. The new regulation
curtails a privilege of de luxe train
operation which can well be spared
as a measure of war economy and
likewise for equipment conservation
after peace.