Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-17
ACTRESS BERATES
THE MODERN GIRL
Aged Thcspian Excoriates
Dress, Manners and Ideas
Of Product of 1921.
ATTACK is EMIT
Compares Butterfly and Doll
Baby Type of Today to Those
Of Victorian Era.
ATTACK is vEHEM EnT

LONDON. July ls.-Revciing in n
i"o generations seniority,< Airs Ken
dai tho celebrated actress OF the
is6o-lsso period. has exercised the
privilege OF the old TO cxalt the man
ncrs and morals of their youth above
made vehement attack upon TIE
modern Girl, her manners ard he.
dress.
Instead of fainting when they re-
ceive proposal and saying. "As.:
r.amma"--they did about 1sG5-Mrs
kendall complains that the girls oil
today say. "Risht-o, old beani"
Wherefore Mrs. Kendall asks for a
return TO the Victorian period
She believes that, women do out
raseous things today; things tina,
they would not dream OF doing IN
Jane Austcn's time. She would ra,h-
or have them faInting.
And prcsent-day clothes distress
the oldtlme actress tremendously.
The girls OF today. she says. show
what might be exposed =. cannot
bear the present-day fashions!
When was girl" says she.
young women were proud OF showing
white neck in evening dress But
now can the girls OF today show a
white neck when all day Ions, they
expose their necks in low-cu' crosses
TO the sun and wind unprotected
save By string OF pearls Of more or
less vuluc?"
Movies Jrrclisious.
And then Mrs. Kendall threw a
bcmbshcli.
clarcd. They are rather an Insult 20
God. No voices at all. they take
away ono OF the greatest gifts OF
all.
II don't like EN-. don't patron.
izc them. They have bad atmos-
pherc. People may say tho theaters
have bad atmosphere. but they are
better than the movies.
II don't think" she said, that the
rising generation will ever be like
the great women of the past. They
VIII do better IL they go slower and
are contentcd with what they sheer
at rs early Victorian"
TbGN laugh at Queen Victoria for
present generation cannot be accused
oi anything ike that. Nowadays
they have hardly shoveled one hus-
band underground before they are
looking for anothcri"
CamHTadcrie Holds Today.
But the modern woman refuses. 10
accept Mrs. Kendal's theories. Miss
Lillian Barker who has trained thou
sands of girls in war and postwar
wsrk. laughs at them.
The modern Eirl?" she asks. what
is wrong with her? | think she is a
very fine thing, Leave her alone
She is working out her own salvation
and VIII come out on top
other weil-known women confirm
Miss Bankers view.
The fashions of today are very
beautiful" states Miss Lillah McCar-
thy. famous Shakcspca rean actress.
and much more hygicnic than those
or our grandmothcrs.
In Victorian days women exposed
their shoulders and busts good deal
more than we do now. They pinched
in their waists and wore skirts which
swept up the dust OF the streets
In these days we allow our waists
10 70 free. and our frocks hang loose
~ in the Grecian style. 1t is healthy
to expose the neck TO the air.
LAS TO proposals. Why should a
woman faint? You might as we'll ex-
pcct the man to do so. we are
through with these antedluvian
IDEAS. The spirit of camaraderie
which exists between the man and
woman of today is the finest and
greatest feature of our time"