LOVE ON THE SCALES

Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 1

LOVE ON THE SCALES

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS, ' To determine scientifically the delicate MiJ controversial question of whether a blonde or brunette is more responsive to love situations, Broadway show girls of both types will become laboratory specimens in the first of a series of tests projected by Dr William M. Marstou, professor of psychology in Columbia University (says the New York ‘World'). “It has previously been established,’’ said Dr Marston, “that women are, generally speaking, more responsive to love situations than men. This fact has been proved by a series of experiments and clinical analysis which have been conducted with the aid of students’ assistants during the last five years among college girls, housewives, and men. The trend of other experiments to date seem? to indicate that brunettes are more responsive than blondes. We hope that the coming experiments will ultimately settle this question. “ X have selected as a first group a number of girls performing on the Broadway stage, representing a worldly type. The tests will include measurements of differentiation in heart beat and respiration and mental tests in the two types, blonde and brunette, while subjected to a visual presentation of screen love scenes Subsequent similar tests will be made with homo girls and married women.”