Paragould soliphone., 1921-07-20
ACED ACTRESS bERATES THE
 MODERN GIRL
Thespian Excoriates Dress, Manners and Ideas of
 Girl of 1921 as Compared to Girls of Victorian Era.
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ICndCn, July o.--tSVoiH"b '" " two generations seniority, Mrs. Ken dsl. the celebrated actress of the 186O-1S90 period, has exercised the privilege of the old to exalt the manners and morals of their youth above those of later times. She has 1ust made vehement attack upon the modern girl, her manners and her dress.
 Instead of fainting when they re- ceive proposal and saying, Ask mamma''--as they did about 1S6b--- Mrs Kendall complains that the girls of today say. "Right-o, old bean.''
 .Nherefore Mrs. Kendall asks for a return to the mid-Victorian period. She believes that women do out raxeous things today; things that they would not dream of doing in Jane Austin's time. She would rather have them fainting,
 And present-day clothes distress tho eld-time actress tremendously. The girls of today, she. says, show what should be covered up and cover what might be exposed sI cannot bear the preseht-day fashions!
 f"When I was girl' says she, s.yuunE women were proud of show ing a white neck in evening dress. But how, can the girls of today show white neck when all day long they expose their necks in l6w-cut dresses to the sun and wind, unprotected save by string of pearls of more or less value?"
 And then Mrs. Kendall threw a bplnbshell.
 s.I don't like the movies she de- clared .They are rather an insult to God. No voices at all! They take away one of the greatest gifts of an.
 II don't like 'em. I don't patron ize them. They have bad atmos- phere. People may say that the theatres have bad atmosphere, but they are better than the movies. Qutl tHluh, SuC ooiut SHuo the rising generation will ever be like the great women of the past. They will do better if they go slower and are contented with what they sheer at as early Victorian
 They laugh at Queen Victoria for mourning her husband too much 1.-the present generation cannot be accused of anything like that. Now adays they have hardly shovelled one husband underground before they are looking for another.'
 But the modern woman refuses te accept Mrs. Kendal's theories. Njss Lillian Barker, who has trained th0asands of girls in war and post vat work, laughs at them.
 NThe modern girl?" she asks. ssSVhat is wrong with her? I think me is very fine thing. Leave her alone. She is working out her own 66ltation and will come out on top"
 Other well-known women confirm Miss Barker's view.
 T uC lubiilOuS VI tcNts e'i VI teautiful, states Miss Lillah Me Cafthy, famous Shakespearian ac- tfess, 'sand much more hygienic than those of our grandmothers.
 "In Victorian days women ex- bBsed their shoulders and busts a rood deal more than we do now They pinched in their waists and wore skirts which swept up the dust ~ the streets.
 ssln these days we allow our waists to'slS free. and our frocks hang loosely in the Grecian style. V is healthy to expose the neck to the air.
 "As to proposals. Why should a woman faint? You might as we'll expect the mra to do so. We are through with these antediluvian ideas The spirit of camaradie which exists between the man and woman of today is the finest and Greatest feature of our time