The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-07
Heavy Lover
Is Dead Idol
to u. Girl
Broad Shouldered He
Men Is Newest Ideal of
American Woman.
BY EVELYN SEELEY
Times Special Writer

Tines special Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Tullio
L y Carminati. new screen idol,
may rest easy in the hotel he re-
fuses to name lest hordes Of Amer
lean shop girls, stenographers. ma
irons mob him with their adulation.
think the Count Tullio Carminati
di Brambilla, who admits that the
impending mantle Of the adored
Valentino weighs heavily on his
shoulders. will be quite safe with us.
The women of London may have
mobbed him with their bouquets,
their candy. their mash notes. their
pursuit of autographs. But I would
be willing 10 bet We won't.
II English women are still so SEN
timental as that it is their bad luck
or good luck, whichever way you
look at it. We in America are fed
up with the Valentines and their
ilk; with their heavy. mysterious,
seductive charm, their ponderous
love making. It is true that thou
sands of women mObbed his funeral,
but things are different now.
We will be amused by Carminati,
l hope; we will admire, on the
screen, the excellence of his acting
and the beauty Of his voice as we
did when we saw him on the stage
But we will give him no halo, for
the market in halos is gone, and
apparently you can only get them
London made.
Heavy Lovers Pass
The late Lou Tellegen, who died
so tragically recently by his own
hand, is an example of the decline
of the matinee idol in feminine es-
timatiOn. Did the masses of femi-
nine fans rise as one and mourn?
No, they were saddened by his
death, impressed by the irony that
led the fastidious and suave Telle-
gen to such a sordid end. But that
IS all.
The movies constitute a superb
Cial, but none the less real reflection
of the trend in what women like
in men. Look for the matinee idols
of yesterday and you will find them
retired on the earnings of their
heyday, playing minor bits here and
there. or starving in Obscurity.
Count Carminati should go to the
movies some time. Who are the big
shots now? Clark Gable. that big
husky Westerner: Pat O'Brien with
the map of Ireland-with all it's ir-
regularities-on his face; Edward
Robinson. hardly a beauty prize;
Jimmy Cagney. George Bancroft
and so on.
"Ah. no, he's not handsome"
sighed a girl friend of mine. speak
ing of George Bancroft. But, oh,
he has such big, broad shoulders!"
1t is the day of the big ne-man
with the broad shoulders. 1t may
be because these days we increasing
ly feel the need of protection from
the big. bad world, because fewer
of us are able to be economically
independent and so must lean on
a man whether we want to or not.
Strong Men Preferred
Or it may be that we are just in
creasingly realistic and have learned
that this romantic stuff is lot of
hooey. not measuring up to what
it's cracked up to be, and good only
for literary purposes. What we
want. it is obvious, is a good, strong
Shoulder-good for practical pur-
poses. whether for leaning on or for
weeping into or for being put to the
wheel.
American women even go so far
as to like their idols rather rude and
disrespectful. Ask any woman what
she likes about Jimmy Cagney and
she will say it's the way he smacks
the movie heroines in the rear.
Maybe we're just going in for the
big and rough and uncouth in men
because we want a change. Maybe
next year the movies will swing
back again to the Saccharine dreams
of our youth. Let us hope not.
Meanwhile, poor Carmlnati need
rot call in the cops from the avenue
to hold us off. We will stay away,
at home with our he-men.