The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-15
M 0 D FRI GIRL BERATED BY
 ACTRESS
Aged Thespian Excoriates Dress, Manners and Ideas of Girl of 1921 as Com pared to Girls of Vic
 torian Era.

Lopdon,Ju1y 3-Reveiling in a two generations seniority, Mrs Kendall, the celebrated actress of the 186O- 1890 period, has exercised the privi- lege of the old to exa1ts the manners and morals of their youth above those of later times. She has just made a vehement attack upon the modern girl. her manners and her dress.
 Instead of fainting when they re- ceive 8 proposal and saying, Ask Mrs. Kendall complains that the girls of today say, "Right-o, old bean!"
 Wherefore Mrs. Kendall asks for a return to n1id-Victorian period. She believes that women do outrageous things today. things that they would not dream Of doing in Jane Austin s time. She would rather have them fainting.
 And presept-day clothes distress the old-time actress tremendously. The should be covered up and cover what might be exposed. "I cannot bear the present-day fashions!
 'When I was girl,', says she, young women were proud of show ing white neck in evening dress. But how can the girls of today show a white neck when all day long they expose their necks in low-cut dresses to the sun and wind, unprotected save by a string of pearls of more or less value ?''
 Movies Irreligfous.
 And then Mrs. Kendall threw a
 q don't like the movies,' she de- clared. 'They are rather an insult to God. No voices a tall! They take away one of the greatest gifts of all.
 "I don't like em. I don't patronize them. They have a bad atmosphere. People may say that the theatres have bad atmosphere, but they are bet ter than the movies.
 "I don't think" she said, "that 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 sneer at as 'early Victorian
 '"They laugh at Queen Victoria for mourning her husband too much-th e present generation cannot be accused of anything like that. Nowadays they have hardly shovelled one hus- band underground. before they are looking for another!
 Camaraderie Holds Today.
 But the modern woman refuses to accept Mrs. Kendals theories. Miss Lillian Barker. who has trained thou sands of girls in war and postwar work, laughs at them.
 'sThe modern girl?' she asks. What is wrong with her l think she IS very fine thing. Leave her alone. She is working out her own salvation and will come out on top" Other wellknown women connrm Miss Barkers view.
 soThe fashions of today are very beautiful states Miss Lillian McCar- thy, famous Shakespsarian actress and much more hygienic than those of our grandmothers-
 ''1n Victorian days women eXposeo their shoulders and busts a good deal more than we do now. They plncn- ed in their waists and wore skirts which swept up the dust of the streets
 -'In these days we allow our waists to go free and our frocks hang looSe- 1v in tbe Grecian style. It is healthy to expose the neck to the air.
 -As to proposals Why should woman faint? You might as well eN- peCt the man 70 do so- we are through with these antediluv1an ideas The spirit of camaraderie which eA- ists between the man and woman O. today is the finest and greatest Iea- , trre of our time