The Washington times., 1923-06-14
MRS. GLYNL|KE5
MAN s WOMAN
IN FILMS
Novelist Says She Would Not
Cross Street to See Any
Other Kind.
BY ELSIE MCCORMICK,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, June 14.--Elinor
Glyn, famous writer of romance,
said today she would not cross the
street. to see film portraying
the life and adventures OF a
''woman's woman
A company which put ''Women's
Women on the screen In the hope
of pleasing feminine patrons would
soon find itself heading toward
bankruptcy, she asserted.
Taking direct issue with Mrs.
Alice Duermiller's statement that
fewer mems women" and more
''women,s women" ara crying needs
of the films, Mrs. Glyn said women
attend pictures primarily to find
out what types are most pleasing
to the masculine half Of humanity.
In q hotel suite banked with
flowers, the celebrated writer gave
her views on what women who at
tend the moving picture theaters
really want.
Seek Romance There.
Women go to the cinema sub
consciously to find out what kinds
Of women are most successful with
men and to feed that great hunger
for romance so common in Amer
ica." Mrs Glyn said. They would
care nothing whatever about seeing
the adventures Of woman popular
with her own sex, because, after
all, 'woman's woman is only
a would-be mans woman who has
failed. "A woman with many fern-
inine friends is one with no in
stinctive or magnetic attraction for
men. She is the kind that Is safe
to associate with ones husband or
lover.
mo matter how much their fol-
lowers might protest to the con-
trary, women's clubs and other
mass activities are nothing in the
world but substitute means for fill
ing what would otherwise be vacant
lives. They are only second choice;
whether she admits It or not, r0-
nance Is always the dominant
thought In woman's subconscious
mind. It is only when II fails her
that she turns to the feverish nc
tivities followed by wonnen's
women. A film story built around
that type might have b certain In
terest for the middle-aged club
woman, but what could 1t give to,
the army OF girls, engaged in bust
ness and professions, whose lives
might be gray were 1t not for the
various romances Of the screen?
"It is the American Woman's
craving for romance that accounts
for the tremendous vogue Of the
film Romeo.
ut is possible that some OF the
to see 'women's women on the
screen are doubtful of their own
charms and are subconsciously OPP
posed to the presenting of types
that will emphasize their def
oiencies. by contrast"
Mrs. Glyn stated that because. Of
the tendency to copy screen types,
moving picture producers are faced
with a terrific responsibility.
Opposes SpectacIes.
: ST also look with alarm on the
tendency in the films toward
greater and greater extravaganza, !"
the noted author said. Each
enormous display is taken as a
challenge to produce an even
larger spectacle. In pandering to
this taste, the film makers are do
ing very serious thing. It is
always a sign of decadence when a
naLlOn begins 10 demand DlOO0 In
the circus Extravaganza fostered
by huge spectacles has been shown
by history to precede many a ma
TONS downfall.
"I believe that producers should
be men with vision enough to think
ahead five years and consider
along what lines 1t is wisest 70 d.
rect public thought. An Industry
with such great potentialities for
good or evil really needs govern
ment supervision.
eff I held the supreme power in
great country and statistics
proved that it's fourth largest indus
try was succeeding commercially,
but was not being used to it's full
power to the good Of the nation, I
would call on the cleverst minds
to discover how it could be used
for the uplifting Of my country
and Of all the rest of humanity"
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