The Mena weekly star., 1921-07-21
BERATES ! THE MODERN GIRL
|<ed Thespian Excoriates Dress, Hammers and Ideas of Girls of 1921 VI As Compared to Girls of the
 Victorian Era.
tBy international News Service,

fBy International News Seryice.l
 London, July 13.--Revelling in i<ro generations seniority, Mrs. Ken
 |S1, the celebrated actress of the 1860
 I5o0 period, has exercised the privi re of the old to exalt the manner. .nd morals of their youth above thes, Fl later times. She has just made 1ehement attack upon the modern girl H<r manners and her dress.
 Instead of fainting when they re <eive a proposal and saying, "Asl
 uama"-as they did about 1865-
 Ers. Kendall complains that the girl! X today say, "Right-o, old bean!' : Wherefore Mrs. Kendall asks for { &&turn to the Victorian period She believes that women do outrage us things today; things that they Uould not dream of doing in Jane Aus fin's time. She would rather hay, Hem fainting.
 And present day clothes distress tho
 I1-time actress tremendously. Int
 trls of today, she says, show wha,
 hould be covered up and cover what
 Light be exposed. T cannot bear the |resent day fashions.
 ''When l was girl," says she
 young women were proud Of showing Y white neck in evening dress. But bow can the girls of today show 6 Xhite neck all day long; they expose zkeir necks in low-cut dresses to the &nn and wind, unprotected save by g Hiring of pearls of more or less &plue?"
 < And then Mrs. Kendall threw a /pmbshell.
 'I don't like the movies," she de. &lared. "They are rather an insult tc Bod. No voices at alll They take 1way one of the greatest gifts of all "I don't like 'em. l don't patronizt Hem. They have a bad atmosphere People may say that the theatres have bad atmosphere, but they are better <han the movies.
 "I don't think" she said, "that the [ising generation will ever be like the Treat women of the past. They will 10 better if they go slower and are <ontented with what they sheer at as Efarly Victorian"
 "They laugh at Queen Victoria for mourning her husband too much-the Dresent generation cannot be accused 1f anything like that. Nowadays they lave hardly shovelled one husband un- Playground before they are looking for 
 # But the modern woman refuses to hccept Mrs. Kendal's theories. Miss Lillian Barker, who has trained thous- 4nds of girls in war and postwar Work, laughs at them.
 "The modern girl ?" she asks. "What is wrong with her? I think she is a Ncry fine thing. Leave her alone. She IS working out her own salvation and Will come out on top."
 # Other we'll known women confirm Miss Barker's view.
 "The fashions of today are very states Miss Lillian McCar. thy. famous Shakespearian actress #and much more hygienic than those of our grandmothers.
 E "In Victorian days women exposed $heir shoulders and busts good dea nnore than we do now. They pincheo in their waists and wore skirts which Ewept up the dust of the streets. ''In these days we allow our waists 10 go free, and our frocks hang loose !ly in the Grecian style. It is health, 10 expose the neck to the air. "As to proposals. Why should { woman faint? You might as well ex 'pect man to do so. We are thrt with these antediluvian ideas. Th' epirit of camarderie which exists be Tween the man and woman of toda, IS the finest and greatest feature O our time"