Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-09
Man,s Eco.

Look at Stratton and his lead
ing lady again." continued Herb
MAUD Samson is more beautiful
more To be desired. than he is with
his world-weary expression, his
cynical mouth and his dropping
profile; and yet no one has men
toned that he is TOO old for the
parts he is playing, but l have
heard many such criticisms of
Maud Samson.
"And do you know why this is,
virgie?
| 1T Is because the men at the
head Of this great business, which
last year reached one hundred and
fifty million dollars in value
more than twice that of any other
industry in Los Angeles-the men
who own this industry and the
directors who put the pictures on
are all men of middle age or more.
So it never enters their brains that
they have reached a place in life
where they can not still play Ro-
meo to any woman's Juliet.
"Oh, occasionally you will find
one that gets glimmering that
his Don Juan days have fled. l
was talking with an art director
from Kalsey's studio yesterday
and he said:
Richardson, have had an
awful blow. I'm beginning to-
think that am not as young as Il
used to be- And then he paused
for me to reassure him.
Instead, l said: What is the
matter old man?' For honestly,
Virgie, he is over forty-five as are
most Of the men who are at the
head Of any of the departments of
the business.
Well, 1t seems as though 1t
were only yesterday he continued
when, IL passed pretty woman
on the street and turned to look
at her l found that she, too. was
glancing back. This morning II
passed little blond fairy who
smiled as she teetered by on high
heeled pumps.
I turned, expecting to get an
other glance and / encountered
only her back.
Richardson, I do not think |
she had even seen me. That smile
was just the general invitation
that all youth sends out.
" I must bet getting DID,"
so you think, Herb, that few
of these men have realized this?"
Few men ever realize it in any
walk of life. Woman, of course,
reaches these conclusions long be-
fore a man does. simply because
she takes her mirror into her con-
fidence.
"A man, after his first youth
ful years have passed, doesn't look
into the mirror often. When he
shaves himself most of his wrin-
kles are covered with lather; when
he ties his tie IL he notices the
wrinkles at all he attributes them
to the fact that he has screwed his
face up into frown at the knots
deylishness.
age, my dear, l think, Is with
In us, Probably Maud Samson
looks In the mirror whenever she
has a chance and breaks her heartl
anew. She counts every little
wrinkle and hunts industriously
among her hennaed locks for a
white hair and she goes forth with
hat feeling of age within her that
10 fattery can obliterate.
"She has lost the faculty of
linking that when man looks ,
It her, he is still appreciating the
slory of her beautiful woman
lood. Rather she quivers under
he old feeling which lashes her
leart, and tells her he is saying to
'imself; Lord; but Maud surely
5 slipping,
"on the other hand. Theodore .
itratton looks across the table into
ier eyes and sees flattery and ad- !
nlration that usually she simu-
ates for his benefit. His mascu-
Inc ego appropriates 1t TO him
elf. his yirility. his attractive, t
aanly excellence. He is still the 9
oung lover who filings to her L
omewhat passe beauty a gracious S
mile in passing" 7
"oh, Herbert. stop. stop! How S
errible."
Herbert Richardson accepted Q
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