The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-29
Dominance
of Blends
Fast Waning
Character Types Wanted
in Hollywood, Says
Anita LOOs.
AUG. 90, 1884.
BY HELEN WELSHINIER
MA ssrEiss stan Writer

DRINCESSES in fairy-tales. shut
Il up in towers. waiting for bold
knights to do the rescue act. always
had golden hair.
SO did Little Eva. who reached a
precarous cardboard heaven By way
OF a pulley.
Venus. the goddess Of love who did
mythical things 10 mythical hearts,
Is given lustre for her ringlets.
Yet Anita Loos. who announced
that the color Of lucre IS mans
preference. now announces that
your hair can't get you anything
IN Hollywood any more.
Character types and condolences
she SAYS. are getting the fan mail
II is due to the economic set-up
which has forced women. in many
instances. 70 assume the financial
responsibility Of the family, Miss
Loose maintains.
Comforts Many Women
II is comforting TO the great ma
iority of women Who are troubled
with such things as the grey men,
ace. threatened badness. dry scalps
and uncertain color TO know that
character wins and personality will
get a hand and a part.
Just the same, the new set-up,
while much fairer. has its disadvant-
ages. the author maintains. It isn't
healthy for a race Of women to rule
a land.
There is no argument to be Of
fered. Miss Loose is right. It's a
precedent. and a nice one, to let
men rule. If women advise men as
to how they shall rule, that is a
different matter.
Harmony Created
The women who have been the
power beyond the thrones-take
Louis XIV and Henry VIII. for ex-
amples-gOt themselves a lot more
publicity and nicer velvets and sat
ms than those who came right out
and gave edicts across their desks.
Women often are better rulers than
men. But there is better harmony
when the men don't know it.
A woman can understand a mans
weakness and transform it into
strength so he can ride forth to
WELD his sword in battle. He is
grateful to her. He has conferred
on her the favor Of helping him. If
he ever knew she could have picked
up the sword and won the battle in
half the time that it took to mend
the broken places in his armor he
would never forgive her.
And We can't blame himl
No man wants to sit by and let
4 woman conquer the world for
him. A great deal of self respect
has been violated in the last few
years when men have been forced,
against their desires. into this kept
position. No, a man would rather
a girl dig gold from him than hand
him a checkbOOk and tell him to
fill in the amounts.
Matriarchy Always Fails
A matriarchy never succeeds. BY
the very physiology of the thing,
men should fight and hunt and fish,
and bring home ScalpS for the wom-
en- to admire. and game and fish
for them to cook. Men are hap
pier that way and so are women.
No woman wants TO rule a man
openly. She wants him to be domi-
nant. The more she SAYS she pre-
fers to make the rules. the harder
she is working to make the man rise
up and take her dare.
No, it Will be a happier day when
the knights come riding back. two
and two, TO the girls who wait
whether those girls have golden hair
II brown.
Maybe, when men jingle coins in
their pockets again, they will spend
them at the fair for ribbons fol
the hair Of the LOreleis of the land
After all, any girl can be Lorelei
with little training. It doesn't re-
quire hair of any special color. Keer
your own. And ask. girls. ask
Gentlemen prefer it.