The Washington times., 1932-01-02
Does Sex Appeal?


to say that Miss or Miss has been great success
in the pictures because of beauty and talent people would
assume that making little OF her attracuVeneSs
SO leave it to the individual memory to supply the
names. The fact is that and women and horses
and dogs who have had the longest and most dstln-
guished in the movies and talkles have not
been peculiarly noted for that power when Ehnor Iyn
lacOncally named 1t.
Talent vs. Beauty
There may be no little shrine of beauty in Holly
wood if there would probably be in the shape
of cold cream jar But there is a vast amount OF
beauty worship Often when movie is shown, cold IN
teectuas deplore the prominence of an actress who
has obviously been chosen for physical per1ectlon
alone l quite agree that those who cannot act should
not be allowed to act; but have seen unoeaut1u play
ers as untaented beautiful ones.
The remarkable thing about the movies now is the
high degree of talent shown by extremely beautiful
women. Here again mans list is as good as an
others. And here again the facts are clear: hall
dozen of the great stars actually exceptional beau
ties 1t is peculiar kind of morasm to be afraid OF
their attraction and often enough critical people are
so put off by beauty that they cannot see the high
talent that goes with 1t.
Smut Racket
1t is getting more and more difficult to escape dirty
magazines The business of publishing them has be-
come racket distinguished by great lack OF INTEL
lgence and of humor. Almost all of them based on
the knowledge that the physical SIDE OF mans
life is not always delicate and graceful as we pre-
tend it is To break down the pretense may be desr-
able but it has to be done wty and brightly and Tor
some reason has to be done without the intention of
making money from dirt The latest magazine have
seen land there's to name t) has nasty
mean pictures and a foul text-imited to captions.
Not one of the drawings is we'll made and one out OF
thirty jokes is funny; that happens not to be
dirty one; it got in by mistake
Let Freedom Ring
Miss Rebecca West pointed out the tragic result
of many of cries for freedom The enemies of CEN
sorship wanted liberty for like Thomas Hardy;
what they got liberty for pornography. Here IN
America wanted serious and somber writer like
Dresser, serious and mystical writer like Sherwood
Anderson a serious and cynical writer like Cabell to
have freedom We it for them, and it has been
taken over by people who make Chic Sale seem clean
and fragrant.
It occurs to that tolerance of dull dirt is about
the only sign that economic depression has had any
effect on u.s. And with Mr. Chesterton in refusing
to call this pagan
Guessing Came
For new paror game suggest that you consider
the following sentence and then guess the of the
one least likely to have written it: eff we could
surround ourselves with forms of beauty the evil things
in life would tend to disappear"
Note that this is highly immoral attitude; it is even
historically untrue Probably no. people were ever so
surrounded by forms of beauty the ancient Creeks
vet political and sexual vice showed tendency to dis
appear from Athens. The great worship of beauty in
the Renaissance accompanied by lust and murder
astounding even to