Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-29
ADJUSTMENTS
100 Many Women Marry as Expert
ment Says Star

ment Says Star
Why don't modern marriages
withstand the test of time as we'll
as those Of our grandparents"
Dorothy Phillips, star Of Allen
Holubars special production for
Associated First National Pictures,
Inc. .Man-W oman Marriage" was
asked the question and answered 1t
this way:
The marriage Of today is too much
like commercial contract. 1t means
nothing unless both contracting par
ties have their hearts lehind it.
In other days" the star continued,
"a marriage was not considered as
lightly, nor were there so many dis
..actinE outside influences to weaken
Inc foundation of the home. Women
we're not immersed in the maelstrom
Of business. They had more time
to attend to the comfort and welfare
of their husbands and give personal
attention to the upbrlnging of their
children"
Man Woman Marriage" in which
Miss Phillips has the principal role,
end which is coming to the Opera
House for an engagement of two
days, beginning today, analyses the
career of women from the stone
age through the medieval period
and to the modern day. The star
depicts the role of a woman OF all
ages and touches graphically upon
the old question of matrimonial hap
! piness.
for its success upon the complete
understanding of both people. The
marriages of yesterday were inf
nitely more happy than most modern
marriages because marriage was then
the sole aim of women. From in
fancy girl was trained to be a good
wife and mother. Today the training
in witehood and motherhood that a
girl gets is quite accidental.
: Unless such a modern girl has a
, background Of good common sense
that will assert itself when the re
sponsibilities Of marriage come to
her. it is not unlikely that her hus-
band will be dissatisfied and trouble
! will come"
The modern man." Miss Phillips
( added, holds his mother as the
shining example Of all womanhood
/ The mother Of the average man OF
marriage age Is Of another school.
and he is consequently disappointed
to find that his new wife is mD0ern
in her ideas and that she is unlike
his own mother"
4 More than million homes are
! annually wrecked, according to the
4 star, because husl ands and wives
/ have failed 10 recognize what Dor
othy Phillips says she has tried
to impress in her role as the girl,
Victoria, in Man Woman Marriage"
Many women Of the present
day" says Miss Phillips marry
with the full intention Of expert
mentinS With matrimony If I
don't ike him l can easily get a
divorce is an Oft -heard express
sion from otherwise serious minded
women. Too many of them are
rushing madly from the altar to
tho court room with fragile excuses
for marital failure"
MAN w oman Marriage" is said
to be the first of the great screen
dramas to treat the problem of sex
antaGonism with thoroughness. Dur
Ing tie last few years innumcrable
sex PLAYS have been placed before
tho public but not one Of these has
done more than treot the question
in a superficial manner. Director
Allen Holubar is said to have aban-
doncd superficialities and dissected
the human soul as Tie skilled hand
Of surgeon might lay bare the
organs Of the body. In the acting
OF Dorothy Phillips, the picture
going public will be axle to under
stand the hufctins which has been
Womans part through the inst,u-
mentality Of ensha okling tradition
Adv.