The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
'Love Is Universal the Same In Every Language" Says M. Lou Telegen Who Gracefully Wears the Dangerously Flattering Title of "The
 Most Adored Matinee Idol lof the Dav'
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

he took & few), in New York. I came
 back home and wrote these memorable words:
 T have never seen Venice; have never
 floa ted in a gondola on the Grand Cana
 under a full moon with the serenaders
 singing and the violins signing and the mandolins tinkling, but with fingers
 crossed) sat before the footlights in a
 gay little New York theatre, close enough
 to M. Lou Tellegen to almost touch his
 red gold hair to see if it was real" as | if didn't know it years before, when
 had the pleasure of meeting this mar yelous looking young actor here, when
 he was leading man with Madame Bern hardt Therefore-bring on the hem- 1 locki
 Yesterday drew bit nearer to the i handsome, romantic, actor; heart to l heart l talked with him: saw him really, truly, worked out in my own mind the
 wonderful charm of the man who today I is the most stunning stage lover" of
 the ages Shades of Romeo and Mau-
 rice Barrymore, Bruce McRae and James K. Hackett! That we should live to see l once more, in these days of syncopated V1enese operas, machine made stars" and papier-mache heroes, an ideal stage 1 lover-a stage lover who makes one 5 l long cherished ideals of Kyrle Bellows Armand Duval," with Mrs. James Brown Potter, fade like pale pink strawberry 1 ice, beside a Turner sunset, and bring i forth Valkyrie call for the "Paprika' | at the mere mention of a Robert Cham i bers heroi
 No wonder our own adorable Geraldine fell desperately and madly in love with ! this slim young son of the sods-this Willowy Adonis with the ethereal hands, the delicate mannersms, the superb phy- sique. and the Lou Tellegen'' brand of love making, for you know there are just three brands; "platonic,". which is love without kisses; ''plutonic," which is kisses without love, and the Lou Telle- gen. brand, which revives the old-fash- toned brand of love and kisses, and hyp- notizes everybody from the matinee girl'' in her teens, to her mother in her forties
 and her grandmother in her sixties, and her great-grandmother in her nineties (f' she has one).
 M. Lou Tellegen is New York's most ! popular matinee idol' today; he is the accepted with joy d-hope-you've- come-to-stay' matinee hero.
 His recipe? Suppose We call it "Hol- landaise la Greque,'' because this stun | ming young matinee idol planes his in. tense temperament, his perfection in the art of love making, largely upon tho fact of his parentage-half Greek. half I Dutch, you know-therefore, gentlemen, | if you would understand the art of fas- cinating women, choose your parents l first. To have been all Greek would have spoiled the pie; all Dutch would have ruined it utterly; but the combin- ation-Voila! it is exquisite; wherefore. let Us not call the gentleman's charm devilish, but nominate it's fascinating , quality that of ''diablerie,' as the French would say, and his stage" schooling is | all French, you know.
 l Therefore, you can imagine, my friends, | that it was with nuttering of the heart 1 and a good deal of trepidation that a l plain little everyday feminine scribe like l myself went forth yesterday for an "in- i terview' with this matchless and won I derful Matinee Idol." fearing that her
 heart might be scorched by single burn 1 ing glance from those fiery gray-b blue eyes; scorched into the semblance off, | well-say a potato la souffle.
 1 Carefully powdering my nose, and re-
 moving a "smudge of soot" from the end of my funny little chin, adjusting my
 bonnet tosjust the right angle-because, my friends, the last illusions of vanity 1 have not yet been wrenched from me (even as you and D, and armed with | l little troop of trained adjectives' tucked away in my silly little cranium, I ven- ] tured forth.
 And-behold M Lou Tellegen, the in- comparable, the adorable, the most per- feet of stage lovers (and "off' stage lovers, too, for so his wonderful wife declares, else he never would have won
 her) the kind that matinee girls in ear amel moods'' declare lis just grand" So, as looked at this remarkable man who won the heart and hand of Geral- dine Farrar after scores of others had failed, I gazed and wondered and won dered and gazed as he beamed upon me one of those entrancing smiles more dan gerous than dynamite, more searching than radium. more swift and potent than electricity, and thought as looked upon the fair young Greco-Hollandesque "Prince Charming of the stage. of the couplet which might easily be applied to him
 "As young as beautiful. as soft as young,
 As gay as soft, as innocent as gay.'
 and miss his description by but one ad-
 jective-namely, innocent-for few dash
 will regret to hear that she is ill with