New-York tribune., 1921-11-15
On, the Screen
Lois Weber's "What DO Men
Want?" at Lyric, Fails 10
Provide an Answer
BY Harriette Underhill

Lois Weber has called her latest pic
tura "What Do Men Want?" and Wild
Cunning is presenting it 1T the Lyric
Theater. Now, many people who 60 to
sec the picture fancy that the title
should read "what Men Want" and that
Ia not the idea at all Miss Weber
simply asks the question, pur does not
answer it any more than George Ber-
nard Shaw did in "Heartbresk House."
As. matter Of fact men want y lot OF
things, just as women do, only for
some strange reason q woman 10 more
likely to 20 on being contented with
her lot even after she ceases to regard
her husband as her hero.
says that when your heart is broken it
ia the end Of happiness and the begin
ming of peace, but he might well have
said when you cease to be in love 1t 10
the end of happiness and the beginning
Of peace. Now, unfortunately, all at
tractive men must have imaginations and
if they have they are bound to use them
at times in picturing themselves AZ
heroes in thrilling IT indiscreet love af-
fairs; they love to wonder If they are as
attractive to women as they used to be
before they we're ma rried and then, un-
less they are too lazy, they 60 to find
out. Every woman ought to know this
and not mind. If she cares enough about
sure to come back after he has found
that he can still break heart or tive
on the outside. AS another director re-
marked last season. it is foolish to
change your husband, for the next one
will be just the same, unless he has no
imagination. which is worse.
At the end of the picture the hero
says "What do men want? They want
the brains to appreciate the fact that
the only lasting happiness is found be-
side the domestic hearthstone." The
heroine says "Men want only what they
do not possess" which we think should
be modified to "Men want only what
they are not quite sure they possess"
with her usual veracity. She never has
any "bg moments" in her pictures, and
her people act just as they do in real
life. 1t is delightfully."- rcstful to watch
one of her pictures, and whether she
selects people who do not care to rave
and rant or whether she instantly
squelches all hifalutin tendencies when
she takes them in hand, the result is the
same. Miss Weber's pictures are filled
with sane actors and actresses!
Claire Windsor. the girl, is, to my
mind, as beautiful as any actress on the
screen, and there is Lady Clara We're
de We're look about her that is charming.
Frank Glendon is attractive as the rest
less hero, but we especially liked the
work of George Hackathorne, as the
quiet brother, and of Edith Kessler, as
the unfortunate Bertha.
Halam Cooley is the young man who
had a system which he believed made all
women love him. 1t is not an especially
attractive role, but Mr.. Cooley plays it
well. Miss Weber wroty the story and
directed the picture.
There are some rather interesting
pages from Life" and an elaborate pro-
logue called "The Dance of Life" Billy
Halbrook is seen as the man, and Doro-
thy Lane, Lola Foster, Cecile Rivlin,
Barbara Kitson, Margaret Roberts and
Gail Beverly represent Youth, Love,
Wealth, Ambition, Truth and Passion.