Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-20
Boys, Treat EN- Rough
Care-Man Methods
Harvest the Hearts
In the Movies They Do

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Why, love him, OF course, love
him as she had loved no other mar
before because the desert chieftair
was so mastcriul.
That in brief. is the story and thu
thesis OF The Sheik," the sensational
novel by L. NJ. Hull. which every
one is reading or talking about. The
film version will be shown in Oma-
la soon.
L. NJ. Hull maintains Throughout,
some 800 pages that women like
rough and tumble methods in WOO
y. ing. particularly petted, pampcred
spoiled girls who have always done
as they please.
To the healthy male who woul
700 and win, here is the recips.
Grab her; show who's boss;
dominate her; bully her; declare your
mental and physical superiority.
Then she'll come groveling to you.
For after all. she is woman. one
OF the weaker sex, and greater
strength ucHRntS lcT.
+. NJ. Hull is, indeed. a woman,
Edith by name. From her home in
London she has Travelled in France,
Belgium, Italy. Holland, Germany,
Bavaria. Switzerland, Algeria. India.
Spain and in Canada and the United
States. She knows the desert OF
which she writes in The Shcik" and
The Orient described in THE
Shadow of the East" her forthcom-
ing novel to be issued next spring
Like another English woman. more
no,cdNas novelist who sprang into
lame with the sensational book
Three Weeks" Edith NJ. Hull
agrees with Elinor Glyn about the
kind Of men women like.
Elinor Gyms Ideal.
"My ideal man must be as strong
as Samson, as courteous as Bayard
and as ambitious as Napoleon says
Elinor Glyn. II haven't found quite
such a man yet, but in the great
western outdoors | have seen many
specimens who approach that ideal
much more than any man ! ever saw
in England.
"And your Amrican men have this
quality of rugged strength, of firm
technique, which is SO enhancing to
women"
American men are too kind to
their women was the way Vincent
Dlasco Ibanez put it. The Spanish
novelist further expressed himself as
follows:
American husbands are afraid OF
their wives. They should be firm with
them. American woman love to be
dominted. A woman likes . master
and not a slave. Treat them rough
once in while Be cave man
again. and your women will like it."
But Agnes Ayres, the film star who
was the recipient of such treatment
in the filming of The Sheik," insists
that is no way to treat lady.
"lt's worn out idea, started by
some one who wanted to be unique"
says Miss Ayrcs. Il don't believe
a woman could ever learn to love a
man who had been brutal in the be-
ginning. To me, at least, it seems
that always, no matter what hap
pcned. ! would remember the past
and that | could not really care for
such a man"
Not Brutal Strength.
But Rudolph Valentino, who
played the mastcrful Shcik in the
perturbation of E. NJ. HulI's novel,
believes in Sheik methods even when
away from the motion picture studio.
"A woman likes a man who makes
her do things" he declared with a
conviction admitting Of argument.
Even If she be suffragette or a Sc |
called new woman espousing fe:ni-
nism, she likes a strong male.
II don't mean brutal strength,
necessarily, although there is a GER
tain type of woman to whom only
physical strength appeals. He may
dominate her with Intellectual
strength, and some women like that
most He may combine brain and
Drawn in his mastery OF woman.
when the English girl, played by
Agnes Ayres, fell into the hands OF
the Sheik on the Arabian desert she
was a cold. Indifferent Tom-boy. She
needed someone to arouse her. No
European had ever interested her.
Then she met the Sheik, and lie was
brutal.
Ah-He Beat Her.
"Hc beat her mentally. He was
cruel. He dominated her. Yet it was
not she, but the masterful Sheik,
who was the victim, bee husc he fell
in love with her.
"While the circumstances which |
brought these two young persons |
together on the desert are quite un
usual, still the emotions which there
asserted themselves arc universal.
although the degrees vary with the
individual, dependent upon race,
character, moods.
Every woman and every man
loves according to his own makeup,
for there can be no absolute stand
ard of love and passion.
''Still, some principles seem es-
tablished to me, and one OF them is
that beauty alone gets very tircsome.
\ woman cannot hold a man with |
iuerc beauty unless she is also i'll
tellectual. LONELINESS OF face and fig
IRE becomes monotonous. Unattrac-
tive women usually cultivate mental
and spiritual qualities to make up for |
what they lack physically. Why |
don't more pretty women look to
their intellect. rather than content |
themselves lazily with mere looks?"
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