NOT MYSTERIOUS.
"People are too materialistic nowadays," remarked Baroness Orczy, creator of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," to a "Sunday Express" correspondent. "They are frightened of romance. They laugh at sentiment and mystery. Look at the girls. They are mass produced. No longer do they have any mystery for men. They all wear cxactly the same clothes, paint tlieir faces in exactly the same way, pluck their eyebrows in the same line, adopt the same expressions, use the same phrases, go to identical places of amusement. They are afraid of doing or wearing anything original. It seems such a pity that girls no longer have any secrecy, glamour, romance. Their men friends know all about them, what they will do, what they will say. They have nothing to conceal. Perhaps they think it clever to reveal themselves all the time, to have no inner self. No longer does a man wonder what a girl is really like, or what she really thinks. It makes love a very different thing from the falling in love our mothers knew. And the young men, too. Again, they are mass, produced, living in a mass produced world."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 10
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