davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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lingo, she was scarcely seven heads tall and
would not have gotten into any front line.
except on her reputation. This Illusion that
ancient Greek women were streamlined sug-
gests that cothing'is the cause for the present
sudden elongation of beauty standards.
When the German barbarians destroyed
the Greco-Roman civilization they induced
men to stop tapping around in what looked
like bed-sheets and to get into something
akin to modern pants but woman still stuck
to her draperies. The long skirt persisted
right into the World War. Then came the
fapper style and even grandmothers had to
try 10 look like their sixteen year-old grand
daughters. Men We're dumbfounded at the way
the women had suddenly shortened up.
They knew that man by giving thought
can add one cubit unto his stature but appar-
entity women had managed to take off about
a cubit from their stature It was mostly
the result of the short skirt. The man in the
street then became conscious that woman
was short-legged biped, built closer to the
ground than himself Gazing out of club
windows he realized that the short skirt made
iong-legged women appear 10 advantage as
against the plump. short-egged Venus type.
The Venus type deted off as much of her
plumpness as she could but the short skirt
has always been a milestone around her knees
Perhaps of significance is the fact that
the shorter of the Follies girls tended to
come TO the most tragic ends If the world
was already turning to taller types these
shortest of all would feel the shock of II
first and hardest even though they did not
know why their glamour had gone
Olive Thomas seemed bent on keeping IN
state Of continuous oblivion finally dying
IN hotel in Paris from an overdose of
sleeping tablets. Whether this was intentional
or an accident has never been determined She
was only five feet two inches tall
once gay and party-loving Kay Laurel
turned into that almost incredible thing for
Folies beauty a sort of feminine hermit
dying IN London hotel of pneumonia after
childbirth, alone and apparently friendless and
penniless. One of the loveiest Of all the zieg-
field girls, Kay was four feet, four inches
tall
Jessie Reed, not long ago. died in Chicago
also penniless, having thrown everything
away in a cynical establishment which even
her best friends never could quite understand
Perhaps had she known that it was not so
much the hcldeness of men that had suddenly
put out the light of her glamour but the
short skirt curse Of short women Jessie
might not have been so bitter. She claimed
70 be half an inch taller than Kay Laurel
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famous dictum about gentlemen preferring
blondes has been reversed by an eight-to-
three decision.
Dark hairs victory over red was set
down as possibly the result of a long propa-
gsnda campaign that fiery tempers 20 with
flaming colorng Men always did like their
women mild not wild But what happened
to put chill on the popularity Of glowing
blondes is a complete mystery. unless it was
because men are the tickle sex after all.
So-called pure scientists trudge off to
the arctics and iungles 10 gather information
regardless Of whether II has any cash vaule
or not Hollywood scientists are strictly
commercial because somebody has to know
what the public wants at the moment or
movie producers VIII lose barrel of money
The reason for the latest beauty census was
the filming by Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Of Will
lam Anthony McGuire's story, "Ziegfeld Girl &"
just recently released
Atmosphere. background and fTcts Of the
ziegfeld era were easily obtained and though
most of the surviving Follies girls had put on
too many years and pounds to play showgirl
roles, thousands Of pictures Of glorified ones in
their heyday are available and can be dupli-
Gated in youthful flesh and blood.
But the casting directors did not get off
that easy The art of the theatre is not to
present the real thing but what COnvinces
the audience as the real thing Bring on an
actor who is supposed to have just fallen
into the river and have him wear clothes
that are soaking wet and he is the real thing
but somehow does not look IT, Let him wear
perfectly dry clothing but smear 1t here and
there with vaseline and he, is an out-and-out
fake but looks convincing.
The Ziegfeld Follies girls knocked men
cold with their beauty as everyone knows
The re-glouffcd screen loyelies must do the
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same for the man in the audience or he thinks
something is wrong Even the memory Of his
father who fen for one of them is not trust
worthy Just as he swears that winters used
to be much more severe. regardless of the
Weather Bureaus records
It is still true that a womens face is her
fortune but the higher the face from the
ground, the higher she should now be- in the
income brackets. Therefore the final east for
"Ziegfeld Girl of l. front-line showgirs.
instead of being mostly moderate-sized
blondes, with just enough dark hair for con-
trast was this unexpected mtxture eight
brunettes three blondes and one redhead
Their average height was five feet six and a
half inches the very highest obtainabe com
bined with Grade a beauty in other details.
Their average weight was 20 pounds and
age p. other specifications are as follows.
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eruers first and Westerners second The only
native New Yorker to make the new front
line is Anya Taranda.
Now that the beauty demands for 1871
are known, the next most important question
is how they came about When OLD insti-
tuition or nation is swept away. historians
are usually able to point TO signs which fore
told the event but We're ignored. Charles
Dana Gibson. the artist with his tall WilloWy
girls. forecast the future much as did Jules
Verne. with his fiction submarine Miss
Burkes comment incidentally suggest a pos
sible cause She said
Beauty Of types has changed considerably
in the past Is years our current beauties
are more streamlined, Of the Grecian type
Streamhned they are but the classic
eTtccfttf1- type WIS not really stfea1lined. The
statues merely give that illusion because the
females are mostly in long flowing robes.
When the Greco-Roman sculptors carved. a
nude Venus, goddess of love and the last word
in irresistible feminine beauty they turned
out plump sturdily built woman who didn't
seem to have watched her Galleries.
Streamlined when stripped of her drape-
r1es- Venus vas absolutely not. In artists
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IT today in the feminine business Of being
beautiful in the eye Of the male beholder
If on top Of that she is a brunette with a
lovely face then unless she's very dumb the
world IS at her feet which no longer have
70 be the size Of mouse. They may
be nearer dogs, IN size.
The popularity Of the extra-tan girl is a
rapid development that has happened since
the death of Florenz Ziegfeld conceded the
greatest expert on feminine beauty since the
ancient Greeks.
The phenomenon was first noted by the
discerning eye of Miss Billie Burke, Mr.. Zieg
fields widow who probably knows better than
anyone else by what standards he picked the
girls worthy of glorificatiop.
Flo Ziegfeld seems to have known what
men admired through sort of intuitive
genius. Hollywood confirmed his widows
observation of the new change by method
zeal compiling of the theatre going masculine
public, similar TO the straw-vote systems
The final figures on feminine figures show that
the perfect height today is five feet, seven and
half inches tan. in stocking feet
Add to that about three inches more Of
heels and you have an Amazon, almost six
feet tall something that Grandpa in his gay
stage-door-Johnny youth would have thought
belonged only in the side show Of a circus
But beauties Of that elevated type are too
scarce to fiji the needs As usual there is
plenty of room at the top.
While Hollywood statisticians were gather
ing facts on height, they picked up some on
color-scheme preferences. They learned that
the brunette is an eight-to-one favorite over
the red-haired lady. but what floored them
was discovering that the supremacy of the
vivid blonde went ont about the same time
as the gold certificates which once were the
most beautiful kind of money. Anita Loos'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

Carroll. of Blooming
Grove Texas. who is
also tops in height her
streamlined figure Of
126 pounds towering
to five feet. seven and
a half inches. The
shortest IS Frances
Gladwin. of Portland.
Oregon. who got IN at
five feet-five only be
cause she was super
latively suitable IN all
other particulars
Ziegfeld b elieve d
that gentlemen pre-
ferred long hair,
whereas all the re-
Qualifications are bob
bed or short.
Even Ziegfeld seems
to have had a vague
prem on1tiou Of a
change To came be
cause. though most of
his outstanding show
girls such as Billie
Dove Lilyan Eastman
ana Mia Saldi. were
born rIght Iu -EeW
York City ne rated the
Eastern sophisticated
type third. with South
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

the The queen OF the tim shoVVglrls Is Georgia
ei9n by American w.esy Inc e,es, na'an ner5Rsseryt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

III ~ AZ n NAt- ~
ing beauty of the
screen, s h ould
move out West,
preferably TO the
Lone Star state
where something
in the soil. air or
sunlight may tend
10 stimulate GER
tain Of the endo-
crime CLAM g in
such "A way as 70
produce extra tall
girls and ncideut-
ally the tallest men
in the country
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Wonderlonds Under the SEQ

leave the lower depths for the
purpose of spawning. This is not
unlikely. considering the sensi-
tiveness of young fry to near
freezing temperatures But there
is another and equally urgent
factor that brings them. the
fishes especially. to the top. This
factor is hunger.
All deep-sea creatures are of
necessity flesh eating animals
This is so mainly because, aside
from bacteria and inedible vegeta-
ton, there are no plants growing
in the deep sea. Thus. in the alb
sence of green plant life and all
that this entails, it is clear that
marine animals in those regions
cannot continue to subsist mutu-
ally on one another. One source
of food supply. of course, is in the
rain of dead organisms continu-
ously descending to the floor: and
in the material thus settling upon
the bottom the creatures that
burrow in, or crawl over, the
ooze find enough for their needs.
and these in turn serve as food
for others.
But there is not an adequate
supply in the source just men,
toned As a matter of fact, food
is relatively scarce at the bot
tom of the deep sea, and for this
reason only the smaller animals
can live there continuously. The
. larger animals must find their
food elsewhere. That is to say
near the surface. Odd as it may
appear, these creatures, many
of them delicately built or other
wise constituted to endure life
at great depths and under great
pressures, are easily able to come
to the top. And they do so usual
ly at night. During the early
hours of darkness, the great up
ward migration has already
taken place. II is then, within
a hundred yards of the surface,
that this hungry horde may be
found fighting. frolicking and
feasting amid the multitudes of
less ferocious-looking forms (but
perhaps no less so in fact) that
commonly frequent the levels
near the top.
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LUcY's BEAUTY RoUsEs LlNNIE's JEALOUSY

Grange ?" He set down his bag.
IT certainly did not send for
you. My physician is DR.. Herbert
Trent"
20, I begin to see. That's bad.
That's very bad. hadn't thought
of it before but that is certainly
going to be a nuisance. DR.. Her.
bert Trent and DR.. Henry Treyne.
Well, I'm sorry. for more rea-
sons than one. I've just bought
up DR.. Benson's practice out here
and you were. or would have
been. my first really important
patient. I'm a nerve specialist,
by the bye"
His eyes seemed to be looking
straight into her untangled brain
functions so that Linnie was not
surprised to see her color change
and her lips tumble. We'll. =. Il
apologize, though it wasn't my
fault. Someone really rang up
my office and left message"
He took up his case. ANY
way" he said, I'm mighty glad
to have met you. My uncle, JEFF
frey Scollard, out In Seattle. has
spoken to me of you and of this
house. He said 1 was coming
back to his own city for him after
a life absence. Only. I'm afraid
he said escape"
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cesaot be handled without injur-
inc them On the other hand
there also exist IN those remote
5olitudes numerous. rigid types
such as crabs and certain fishes,
many Of the latter having de-
veloped long AM powerful teeth.
The number Of deep-sea ami
mails that have been discovered is
considerable; yet in a way of
speaking. they are not dissimilar
to the forms inhabiting shallower
waters. What differences do
exist are those Of degree rather
than those of kind. Under the
changed conditions of life, there
have been brought about merely
special notifications of struc-
ture No fundamental features
are found altered
Consequently, it is presumed
that because the animals of the
deep sea resemble those now
living in shallow waters, rather
than those Of ancient periods,
the abyssal types may have mi
grated to their present home
during some era comparatively
recent. Nor does it seem that
this migration has stopped; in
deed. the indications are that
this exodus from the shore
region, although gradual. is as
marked today as it was at any
time in the past.
Since the temperature of the
ocean is constant and uniform
throughout the world at certain
depths, this fact makes it pos
sible for many marine animals
TO thrive in deep tropical waters,
animals which are sometimes
identical with or closely related
to those living in the shallow
waters of colder seas. Some
Holsters, for example, which
'occur along the shores of Nor
way are known TO be closely
allied TO some that have been
-ound in comparatively deep
1arts Of the Indian Ocean.
IRON the fact that numerous
dcep-aca animals have been
tound at, or near, the surface.
e naa been supposed that they
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Judith's color was dangerously
deep. the dark rich color of anger.
DR.. Treyne bowed. smiled at Lin
ME and walked out as firmly and
as rapidly as he had entered.
He ran quickly down the stairs.
There stood Lucy in the hall, no
longer looking at the picture but
up, with a startled air. at him.
He stopped abruptly and stared
at her.
II didn't know either of them
was married" he said.
They aren't" Lucy replied
with equal directness and sim
plicity. I'm their great-niece."
20, Mr.. Ralph Oranges
daughter Lucy. He has just
brought home a second wife. Was
that she upstairs with Miss
Grange? Uhum. 1t all fits in. I
wonder if you'd just let me walk
around rather quietly and look
at the house. It's such a beauty
and I've a feeling I'll never be
asked here again."
why not?" Lucy was trying
not to laugh and moving for
ward through the long, low-ceil-
inged rooms.
II made a break. Wasn't asked
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not knock? Are you a wood
pecker or a woman?"
Lu tried to appear amused.
IT'S Ralph's wife. Judith. It's
Jacqueline Grange"
An instant of silence, then,
Very well. Why not bring her
in? I knew she was coming.
Don't make such a circumstance
Of introducing a great-niece-in-
law. We all know Ralph's been
married for almost two months"
The room was large, well fur
nished, old chintzes, old rugs. old
large pieces of furniture. A wood
fire burned in a Franklin stove.
Opposite it, in an enormous four
poster, sat up Miss Judith
Grange. a spike surmounted by
an appropriate high and hand
some head. Her small delicate
features were fine and carven,
her hair waved snow-white and
vigorous above the dark level
brows, the dark and glittering
eyes.
She held out a long, fine
fingered hand. The skin of her
arm was as white and as firm
as young girls.
I'm glad Ralph has brought
you TO US. Jacqueline." Her voice
was treble and sustained. High
over has needed a mistress and
that boy has certainly needed
wife. He's been getting into such
a rut of business and newspaper
reading that he was dreadfully
duh. You look lively. And pretty.
And young. But you have a
crown girl Of your own. Ralph
tells me. Now. you tell me what
YOU think about that step-daugh-
err"
Linnie sat down in a small
chair beside the bed. feeling very
small herself and diminished in
Importance, having 10 look up
ike a child to the propped. high
oedded figure.
Well. really beautiful people,
40 you should know. do make the
rest Of us feel a little depressed
a. times. Lucy, l admit, was
quite a shock to ne at first. Ny
own child is no beauty. Just
what people cali a nice kid
But I'd be ashamed not to be very
fond Of Lucy. She's sweet crea-
ture and It's hardly her fault
that she makes less lucky women
green with jealousy"
Judith flushed and laughed. her
eyes had grown big with aston
ishment. anger and then sud-
denly with mirth. so you're
jealous of the child. And you
admit it."
Linnie shrugged. But
haven't admitted it to anyone
else, not even to Ralph. So please
keep my shameful secret, Miss
Grange"
Aunt Judith, / should Think
Aunt Judith with pleasure
Are you still sick? When can l
get you for dinner at Highover ?"
4 don t dine out. You and
Ralph can come here one day
next week. la VIII telephone.
When does your daughter get
here? l feel I'd rather like to
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know a nice kid Not many Of
them left. they tell me-"
There are millions of them,
Aunt Judith. And I'll bring mine
to you as a sample. But not the
night Ralph and / dine here be-
cause l want her to stay at home
and keep Lucy company. want
them to like each other"
mot a chance. Step-sisters?
And one of them. Lucy? That
child's an imbecile. of course"
20 no, Aunt Judith. Why do
you say that"
"She is. She must be. Any real
brains or character would have
given her a twist or so. spoiled
the picture a trifle. humanized
1t. Nobody has a chance to find
out what a nincompoop she is.
because they do nothing but cape
at her with their mouths open.
I've seen them. And, as to
Ralph's servants. and my own,
tool. what are you going to do
about that?"
Nothing. They adore her. I'm
not small enough to find that I'M
pleasant"
Just wait until they begin to
discriminate against your JAG
queline."
4 INNIE knew that she flushed
- She had not thought of this
complication and Miss Oranges
suggestion struck in rather deep.
Il don't think. they will do
that; she said gravely and
quietly, dropping her sharply
playful tone, Not to any notice
able extent. And I am sure
Jackie can take care of her own
interests"
Jacket What an absurd nick
name! Can't you change that?
I'm not going to call the child
Jackie. Jacqueline is very
pretty name. Why didn't you
stick to it ?"
Linnie smiled again. Il really
should have. But Jackie seems to
suit her and Linnie, me. We can't
quite live up to Jacqueline. It's
too quaint. Like the Shoppe-
period, don't you Think"
You're amusing. Original,
What a joy!. Good Heavens,
Why would they send the doctor
up just now like this ?"
There had been no timid rap
ping. The door had been flung
wide open and man in a tweed
suit. carrying a small black bag
marched firmly into the room
A tall young man. eager. ugly.
with a quiet swinging step. He
came over toward the bed focus
sing brilliant. closely-lidded eyes
upon the patient.
Miss Grange, isn't it? Very
glad to know you. And what's
the trouble with you today"
Miss Judith closed her mouth,
relaxed the grip she had fastened
upon her bedclothes and spoke in
her highest key, My dear sir.
l haven't the vaguest notion who
you are or why you're here or
why anyone let you come up
stairs and walk into my bed
ROOM"
Il understood that you had
sent for me. This is Miss Judith
Evening star., 1941-01-08

kill him, and in this particular yer.
sion they do, but they are left with
the conviction that all cannot be
well in the war with the church and
it's spirit.
The broad outlines Of the story
Of Pastor Hall" are not greatly
different from those of several other
gruesome accounts of life and death
under Hitler. 1t begins with the
rise of National Socialism and Is
concerned with its slow, ordered de-
struction of the tranquil neighborly
life in the pretty little town OF
Altdorff. Center of that life is the
church, and pastor of the church is
a man who so epitomizes its spirit
that he cannot comprehend the
movement to paganize the Father
land.
Every brutal gesture, the beating
of Jews and their diSinheritanCe
the inculcation of fear, the teach
ing of amorality, all these he op-
poses with the confidence of man
who obeys a higher law with a
militance that matches that of his
enemies. He knows he is exposing
himself to the most horrible of re-
prisals, that his daughter and he1
suitor and his friends are being
Evening star., 1941-01-08

jeopardized, but these are sacrifices
in the line Of duty.
He follows that line through clash
after clash with his foes, follows it
to and through a concentration
camp from which his escape is
dramatically contrived. And then,
with freedom and flight from it
within his grasp. he goes back once
more to his pulpit for the denuncia-
ton of his enemies which he knows
will end on the church steps with
volley from Nazi guns.
X
1t Is an inspired portrait of the
valiant church warrior which Law
son creates in the central role. He
is the embodiment not merely of
the militant churchman, but the
kindly, intelligent, gentle German
whose disappearance is one of the
strangest phenomena in history.
Moreover, the characters by whom
he has been surrounded in this dra-
matte narrative are equally well
cast. Beyond Miss Pilbeam, who has
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Co.Star First Time
In New Comedy

James Cagney and Bette Davis,
who have been with Warner Bros.
studio for 10 and 9 years, re-
spectively. will co-star for the first
time in THE Bride Came c. o. D."
a comedy, Cagney has just COM
pleted his starring role in ''The
Strawberry Blond" with Olivia de
Havilland and Rita Hayworth. Miss
Davis is now finishing her role with
George Brent and Mary Astor in
The Great Lie"
THE Bride Came c. o. D." will
start Immediately, deferring plan
ned vacation by Miss Davis. Philip
and Julius Epstein wrote the screen
play from an original story by Ken
meth Earl and M. M. Musselman.
William Keighley will direct. Also
cast are William Frawley. George
Tobias, Stuart Erwin and Jack
Carson.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

ADJUSTMENTS.
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had no such role since she played
Mine Days a Queen" her first
major part years ago, Hicks gives
the performance of his life And
so do Marius Goring as the Nazi
heel, Brian Worth as the elderly
German generals son, Lima Barrie
as the daughter of an old-line Ger
man. Before they get through with
Pastor Hall" it is one of the most
eloquent films which has been dis
tributed through Hollywood.
And even If 1t Is being shown on
Ninth street it should be seen by
every one who thinks the movies
have more of duty than simple
entertainment.
Pastor Hall" is an illustration
of Mondays address by President
Roosevelt to Congress.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Film for Priscilla

Priscilla Lane and Ronald Reagan
will be co-starred by Warner Bros
in Miss Wheelwright Discovers
America" a modern-day comedy.
Curtis Bernhardt, who directed
The Lady With Red Hair" will
direct from the screen play by Jerry
Wald and Richard Macaulay. Pro-
duction is scheduled to precede
-Four Fathers" as vehicle for
Priscilla Lane.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

man whose inner fire could not be
quenched by the most hideous bru-