The Washington times., 1931-08-21
True to Tyr pc
BETTER THAN SEX APPEAL
SEX MENACE ASSUMES
IMPORTANCE
.Ry GILBERT SELDES.


cipes have done to make topic of converse
tion than Elinor Gyn did, The calm and measured
words of DR.. Olga Knopf made the headllnes but l
doubt whether she will have profound influence. She
says that value themselves in accordance with
the number of lovers they have (or geneelg, the
number of people who love hem and not by the number
of their friends she says that women would do better in
business if they forgot their appeal And hear great
sarcastic soprano chorus rising in the longdrawnout
syIables, "Oh, yeah?"
Its Boy
One thing Dr. Knopf says which intelligent people will
approves that the "only gir attitude is ridiculous.
The thing starts with those expectan parents who
"want it to be boy, and continues with the pathetic
mothers who up from the ether and apologize to
their husbands because "it" turned out a girl
The satisfaction of new fathers in the anteroom
at the club when they to others that their in
fant is boy is as preposterous the cacling of
rooster after egg has been laid Even fathers who
have enough not to affected by the envous
congratulations of the less fortunate by the hangdog
happiness of the fathers of three or five girls Some
thing might be said if these fathers anxious to
perpetuate name, house. family line; but this (snce
the of the Lucy Stoners) is the last thing in
their minds They only afraid that succession Of
girls is a reflection on themselves
Sex Menace Enters
About appeal have always been sceptica because
its chief exponent Miss Bow It pleasure to point
out that the most profitable of pictures indifferent
to IT. that Chaplin and Rn-Tinn made their successful
way without this exploitation and that Tom Mixs horse
hadn't read "Three Weeks" The gangser talkes of this
year also bear OUT neither Edward G. Robinson
James Cagney is Valentino yet they pack the heaters
And now from unexpected source, comes new
ternl-sex Mr.. Max Ewing, if have the
right informs me that posthumous analyses have
been made of the attraction and charm of Valentino and
the decision has been reached that minor players had
appeal, but what Valentino had menace The
term is not yet strictly defined but one gathers that
beyond the thrill there was an apprehension the desire
to be captured mingled with terror After ALL OF
the hundreds thousands who adore the Valentines and
the John Giberts and the Vaees only scattering few
round to the stage entrance Carlo and Dietrich are
credited with potenalty in the same fleld-ln case
you are interested
Moral Aristocrats
fear that the first nominations for the American
peerage are little unkndy meant Tayley Mack (con
ferrinp a knighthood on myself which is dubious
plirnent under the crcumsances is cagy about saying
why ne bestows his honors-that s whether they are
to the recipients to continue or to persuade
them to fade out of existence. 1t S OF course, the
of the scheme that people who have done good
work and becoming bores or pests should receive
title of honor and feel that they needn't proving
how good and important they On the other hand
certain honors should go to those who still can give
pleasure. The list sent by Tayley Mack includes:
Viscount Rhapsody of Gershwin Manor.
Sir Edward Robinson, of Arlington (poet laureate).
Vina, Countess of Delmar.
Sir Forenz Zegfeld, Knight of the Garter.
Lord Seabury of Tammany Crossing
The Lady Edith Wharton Duchess of Iceland
The Earl of Carroll, Knight Commander of the Bath.
Baron Bernarr of Boddycombe
Sir Sande Whitney, Equerry to the Duke of Belmont.
Other lists received nominate Mrs. Ella Boole, bat
without specifying the correct tte and number of
newspaper columnsts whom it would be, perhaps, i'm
polite to name at the present moment.
Who Speaks English?
The good people of New England about to be asked
what they call their parents: Nav mommer pop
daddy pa And this is only beginning, because
the whole country is to undergo in the interests
of Linguistic Atlas of America. When it is completed,
English cousins will comment the debauchery of
good English in America; and will doubt refer us
back to the good old words pater and mater the only
correct terms to In recent English novel Comp
ton Mackenzie's amusing "For Sale) growing boy
says of another, 'he bunked because he funky to
which his father properly retorts Speak English, boy
But the father in the story old tyranical FOOL and
not to be taken seriously.
Cockney VS.. Curates
The murder of English is probably cruel than
the murder of native tongue but the pretenton of
the English that universally they speak their language
with any propriety is absurd do not know which is
worse: Cockney Oxford; both incomprehensble,
but when you have learned COckney is amusing which
cannot be said of the Oxford tongue and the tongue of
curates
In America have local dialects, STILL and drawls,
twangs and singsongs which distinguish section from
another it is have heard mean