The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1919, Page 9

| SATURDAY, That the There’s a Kiss — That They Let Get By BUT THE KISSES THE FILM FANS LIKE TO SEE— The Clinging, Cleopatra Kiss of Theda Bara?—The 160-Second Endurance Kiss of Katherine Mac- Donald?—The Soul Kiss of Geraldine Farrar?— The Apache Kiss That Almost Broke Gladys Brockwell’s Back?—The Minute Lover’s Kiss of Dorothy Phillips? Or the Synthetic, Rose Kiss of Pauline Frederick? The Chaste “Door” Kiss of Elinor Fair?—Or the Kiss That Charlie Chaplin Gives a Daisy? By Zoe Copyright, 1919, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York brening Work.) Oh, fre! once he drew With one tong kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. . .” “Oh, love! HAT is a kiss? Is it as Cyrano de Bergerac put it: . om the i in loving?” Or “A long, long kiss,—a kiss of youth and love?” Because if Cyrano is right, then Theda Bara is all, all wrong. Juan has the correct idea, Mary Pickford is far from truth in declaring “The delicacy of any love sgeno is ruined by a long-drawn kiss.” ought to be boiled in oil for his emphatic refusal to kiss anything but’a daisy, no matter how cluttered up the screen may be with damsels fair whose lips seem willing to brave even the prickles of the noted Chaplin mustache. Far be it from us to decide this vexed question of how long a kiss should last either on or off, before or behind We only know that the State Board of Censors is agitated over the protraction of certain recent film kisses and 1s about to pounce officially and hard. Pending the decision, we have gathered data which may help you to judge who is right—the West Coast folks who the screen, favor a kiss occupying no more than ‘sympatiretic audience further east which late! without any disorder being reported. This record-breaking salutation was stven by Roy Stuart as Kenneth Taira to Katherine MacDonald as Apelie Deane in a First National production called “The Bleeders.” Those who held stop watches on this event agree upon two and two- thirds minutes (the 2.75 kiss?) as the exact duration, Cyrano would never have approved of that. Nor would little Mary of the sunny locks, The State censors are said to have not yet recovered from the shock to their sensibilities, but hope soon to be able to make their (adverse) report. For the information of those who may thus be disappointed that Theda Bara does not hold the loving cup for the osculatory championship we hasten to state that Miss Bara and Albert Roscoe in a love scene from the Fox feature “Cleopatra” con- sumed only a fraction less film than in the episode above mentioned. ‘There are those among the witnesses who ‘maintain that if quality counts, the Bara technique entitles the Cleo- patra kiss to first place, “It is not the duration of a kiss,” Miss Bara avers, “but the emotional fervor that counts. The art of the screen must reflect truth. One should not measure a kiss but feel it. Tape- lines and temperament don't mix.” Gladys Brockwell, who recently sur- vived a film kiss from William Scott which ts said to have dislocated her Gfth, sixth and seventh spinal ver- tebrae, is threatened with mandatory @iscipline from the Board of Censors. “It is an ‘Apache’ kiss,” explains Miss Brockwell, “and the Paris Apache does not satute his belle mimi by dlowing !t across the room to her from the palm of his hand, nor by tickling her cheek with the fringe of his eyelashes, Hither all photo- plays of passion must be abolished by the censors or latitude permitted for realism in kisses, There are jases—and kisses,” The most chaste and restrained patron of the movies will grant the truth of Miss Brockwell’s last remark. There is, for instance, the “door kiss” (see Charlie Ray and Blinor Fair in “Be a Little Sport"), This type of salute is highly approved by the censors, being maintained for but three feet, of film, and at low pressure at that, with a large, cold, hard and unyielding door almost entirely sep- arating the participants, Likewise the synthetic osculation performed by Pauline Frederick and her handsome lover in a recent Gold- wyn production featuring a rose, The rose, held interposed between the lips of kisser and kissee, acts as a com- plete non-conductor, and conforms with all the Ideals of those who en- joy window-shopping and marriage by proxy, Geraldine Farrar has nev- placed herself on record as opposing the more torrid forms of osculation, The lovely “Getry* just shuts her eyes, throws back her head and gives to Fred Truesdell: “All the breath and the bloom or the year in the bag of one bee, t JULY 26, There’s a Kiss — 1919 Censors Censor Beckley —Tennyson. “The rose-dot should it be the Don Juan: salute: If Don And Charlie. Chaplin two feet of celluloid reel, or the more y viewed 120 feet of kiss “THE cL €opar as) tI5s" THeow BARA ano RePaRT mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sc.; Breath and bloom, shade and shine— wonder, wealth, and—how far above them— Truth, that's brighter than gem, Trust, that’s purer than pearl— Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe—all were for me in the kiss of one girl.” Likewise and moreover does Dor- othy Phillips fling film-economy to the four winds of heaven when she and William Stowell mark the climax of the Universal's great picture “The Heart of Humanity” with what the office boy vulgarly calls clinch” lasting nearly a full minute, standard time, When a picture with Mabel Normand and Tom Moore was being presented in a Middle Western city a few weeks ago, the film caught fire in the midst of the twenty-ninth inch of kiss and everything had to be stopped. The manager calmed the audience, the projectors hustled around with grap- pling hooks and rubber gloves or whatever they use in revairing a blazing celluloid osculation, And presently, the strip being respliced and again flashed upon the sheet, it was found to the further excitement (@H the wonder aud wealth of the! of those prosent that the same kiss ° The Kiss in the Movies Se SES TESS SO URET MEARTS, Kiss” Y PHILLIpS ANG Wm. STOWE Ain’t It the Truth? By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) UT-OF-TOWN fellers don't sume we all wear a no-plece O think N the suit in the bathtub. THETSOUL KISST GERALDINI place to get a wife, When Understand that since the *ROESDOEt. the out-of-town are in war it's not good form to call | New York, what do they want of @ society bud “buddie.” a wife? New York's choked with buy- was going on, The State Board of| Yokels' dope wrong. ers, But they aren't buying Censors got wind of it an. made a| Trouble is, a walk in the park the same kind of stuff they terrible fuss. is @ whale of a time in Hix- were getting @ year ago this “No kiss,” said they, “that can have ville and a waste of time in New time, sections of It amputated by fame and) yori Buyers used to like the brand still go on as if nothing were missing| =" g edute of @ Summer Girl of goods you now find in cel- can be a proper kiss.” In vain was it sworn that it was not a vamp kiss,| ®t the Seaside: lars, but the perfectly legal salutation of 8.00 A. M.—Sleeping Difference between pitching @ promised bride, 8,30 A, M.—Snoring. and pawning 1s: Four balls ‘The theatre was closed and the pic- | 9.00 A, M,.—Still sleeping. and you walk; three balls and ture forbidden in three States, or un- | 10.00 A. M.—Starts swimming. you get a ticket, til such time as it could be amended 10,01A,M.—Starts shivering Smart guy reads between the and denatured In conformity with the 2.30 P, M.—Starts shimmying. lines, Lazy guy reads between ose sho 6 OWES ENE | 281 P, M—Starts shivering | the sheots Yorinne Griffith o: e grap! ta agrees with Lord Tennyson that ideal | Ais > ite Kaiser's going to get a trial rasa’ tath oni ana Getta: ecrae, | i 7. spooning, in London, If he makes good, abould be “balmier than half-opeaing 11,00 P, M.—Still spooning, he'll be booked for twenty years buds of April.” | Midnight—Doesn’t want to | solid, “I often think the censors are| stop. | Planning aero express service right,” gays she, “Nothing vulgarizes| 12.45 A, M.—Sleeping. between Europe and America, Uke too great emphasis, whether It Is) 42.59 A, M.—Starts snoring. Have a good idea what most of love or—cosmotics, The real artist in It's a great they the express packages will con- dress, as in love, leaves something to | the imagination.” | never weaken, tain, ‘Are you with the kiss censors—or| Still arguing about the one- Why rot? K-34 carried rum agin ‘emt piace bathing sult, but We pre | on koth lege gf iis Journex, Here Are Osculatory Samples of the Kinds They Furnish on the Screen, From the Lingering, 120-Foot Marathon Buss to the Brief, Esthetic ‘‘Rose Kiss’’ KATHERING OY STUART. Legs didn't wobble a bit, either, airplane would certainly get a welcome Booze brought by on reaching dry land. And it will take stop the traffic Keep be near-beer, Police have had day. Thieves are theirs. New kind of trouble marcel wave, CCAD 4 be Hard Viel | aa fly cops to reducing the time between here and London and the English brew will really running fleld having their still York cops having same crime wave as a colffeuse has with @ with 9 4 pressing their poli young men of N and yet leave her somebody used to say of the popular magazines—it is always “sex o'clock” —she is the girl whose mirror is crowded with dance orders and who is extremely popular with every man except the one who marries her. | To the “nice girl" who envies her popularity I can only offer one piece be practical advice: Without losing jyour intrinsic fineness and worth, take pains to cultivate a few surface Jattractions, Don't confuse true mod- ‘esty with chilly reserve, Be as pretty Q jana ag well dresged as you possibly can, The graces, as well as the vir- | tues, have their place in life. Don’t fF] \hide your light under a bushel. Be fate with young men whom you like—which means that you should be icharming and provocative, After all, the old idea that a girl should shut herself in a tower and wait for a young man to come wooing beneath her window was an artificial convention, Even in the days when it ruled, more than one young woman rebelled, put on armor and rode forth to seek her own adventures with love and life. Now there are so many |more avenues open to the girl who would form normal friendships with ”’ young men—with the frank hope that ig | dearer than a friend, There ts a happy medium between ‘the good girl who ts dull as bread pudding and the meretricious, vulgar siren. The girl who chooses that ‘middle road will have no dimeulty in choosing a husband or in being ‘chosen as a wife, YOUNG MEN NOT INTERESTED IN GIRLS THEY DESCRIBE. Dear Madam: You are quite right ‘in your defense of the New York girl. I will admit that a great number of New York girls apparently deserve the arraignment of your cynical cor- respondents, but the reason is that if girls do not dress flashily and dance jazzily they are not invited out, The thoroughly “nice” girl ie lett at home, Of course I am speaking generily, not tndividually, ‘There are atill enough nice girls for. the nice young men, If a young man is de jrous of meeting such a one, all he need do is to look around his office, his social circle or his sisters’ friends and he will find one to his liking. That is, of course, provided he himself is not fast or ill bred, But remember that the sweet, sen- s¥ble, practical girl likes to be taken out and have @ good time as well as the frivolous girl, and it is not fair to either to spend the best years of your life in entertaining the frivolous girl and then at the eleventh hour decide that she is not the girl you want for your wife, and marry the sensible girl I repeat, it le not fair to either, 1 know that your young men will find the girls they want if they are the sort that their letters imply, if they will look carefully enough. The average New York girl is @ true American girl, tond of outdoor sports, such as swimming, tennis, camping, fond of reading, music, dancing, a fairly good housekeeper (which js say- ing a lot, considering the fact that most of them have very little prac- \tice), very apt with the needle in making over clothes and millinery— — taken all in all @ fine companion, friend and sweetheart through life, ‘As to the argument that out of town girls are more ‘¢ominine, that is not true, You oan- not contrast a huge city like New York, with its millions of young giris, with a litte town of perhaps two or three thousand unless you bring it down to proportion, and if you do that you wili find that there are more womanly girls in New York in pro- portion than in any other city in the Union, or outside of it for that mat~- ter, I have found that the out of ltown men a8 a rule are more cour- teous, agreeable and likable than the New Yorker, but they have not the SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1919 How Would You Pick HUSBAND A WIFE “The Kind of a Wife Men Talk About Young Women Readers of The Evening We Assert “Is Seldom the Kind of a Wife Choose”—Why Is It?—And Is It True?—New York Young Men Are Invited to Answer the C By Marguerite Mooers Marshall : Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World). ‘cc HY is it,” an intelligent young woman asked me the other W “that men always say they admire one sort of girl and seek the company of the other sort? Why is it that, in pic a wife a man TALKS about choosing the modest, home-loving girl ani CHOOSES the flashy, overdressed, out-fora-good-time hopelessly at variance with his practice?” io Several young women contributors to this discus" — sion have made the same complaint. Two letters 6x” charge that they disingenuously praise the “home girl”: for an evening’s entertainment or even for life. Men often, I think, show a curious stupidity in their judgments of women. The obvious does attract them. The girl who emphasizes her good) looks, who laughs more easily and often than ts necessary, with whom—aai ” {one of them may prove something! womanly and | pi nt of view are published below. Ta York are invited to answer the) at home when they seek a companion “a My idea of & trusband ts as follows! He must be manly, kind, ‘thoughtful’ neat in his appearance, fond of out- door sports, have a» desire to abead with » bit of ability, take ant interest in civic and Federal affaira, above all, be clean in his thoughts and manner of living, All these itiow I believe the average Yorker has in him if he will bat ale! low them to come to the surtace. ae I wonder if men realise that they, ought to thank thelr lucky stars being men. A man’s life is so freer, 60 much richer in: . than a girl's, I've 0 often. wished that I were @ man instead of just’ - A GIRL: | GOOD FELLOW MORE POPU! THAN QUIET HOME GIRL. Dear Madam: Do these two genties men, who state that: “ “The New York girl is all right teke to dances and summer shows", know that here in this supposedly, — wicked city, which, according to ”. can boast of nothing but silly, 4 lous women, there are girls loathe dance halls, who never dances, who have never been to. aes sc-called summer shows, who are mot’ ® bit interested in these forms of amusement? $ ‘There are girls in this great city, who are wretchedly lonely. Why? Because they are not afforded oppars tunities of meeting suitable young men. These girls have no friends, and can think of no possible means of aga! quiring, desirable acq Tnelr pleasures consist of frequent trips to the movies or an cccasiqnas fi } car ride, d Do these two “cynics” realise, the majority of men do not care quiet girls? They prefer girls known a4 good fellows. Do these gentlemen know that there are countless young girls who hesitate to accept Invita« tions from young men because, after @ day's fun, & man expects payment, # of some sort pr another? The young men of to-day will mot — bother with any other kind of girl, than the one who has developed the gentle art of ‘attracting by means fashy clothes, and bold, manners, and I don’t mind that it gives me pleasure to bas ¢ men belng made monkeys of by these selfish, mercenary creatures, s The New York gir! is all right, the men will only realize that this, statement can be taken at its tml value when they turn thetr attention from the girls who are not. worth & while to the quiet, unassuming little ladies who are patiently waiting te be discovered, and duly appreciated, | { BRW MOST GIRLS VAIN AND FICKL AND SELFISH. : Dear Madam: I have studied American girls from all angles and am very sorry to state that I fimd the majority of them possess fickle~ ness, vanity, selfishness and shallow. ness. MY WIFE. She does not have to be beautiful, \jJust pretty, knowing how»to dress and being clean. Nationality of ~ creed is immaterial, but she must have common sense, be and willing to live up to my ideals, Education is not necessary, she is intelligent otherwise, but she |must love children and home, be & life partner tn all things and know something about cooking. I do not mind an occasional dab of powder, HER HUSBAND N ONLY ONE QUALIFICATION, Dear Madam: What I would dal mand in a husband, 1s one who. would _ look upon the marriage vow as the most sacred oath that he could realizing that to be considered |honorable man, would necessitate {filling that contract the same ag progressiv-ness and maniiness of the ® ‘true New Yorker, You see I am “am [YURI ot! SOR VOM EEN Tae a other dual contract entered |der oath. 1 could ask no x mente all demande