Elinor Glyn’s Swan Song

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 44, 22 February 1938, Page 4

Elinor Glyn’s Swan Song

NEW BOOK TO BE HER LAST Elinor ("Three Weeks”) Glyn has a new mission- She has discovered the Secret of Youth. She intends to proclaim h.er gospel to the world in a book and then she will never write again. Sighing a little, smiling a lot, she talked gaily in her eighteenth century Connaught-place flat of her secret. Seventy-three years young, dark, vivacious, with happiness written all over her, her optimism was infections. "It's nice to be young. I'm very young”—she gave one of her inimitable chuckles—"and you can't stay young without a sense of humour. "My recipe for youth t Descipline of

character and correct attitude of mind. Very few have that self-discipline, and it is not easy to acquire. I have found it; others can, too. "I mean to give them the secret. They need never grow old. Then I will never write again.” Mrs Glyn, grandmother of live, living with her two cats, gave Dr. these Glynisms: "Girls are just splendid. .Make upJ Why not, if it is what the young men want. Lipstick and rouge are just a form of expression. * ‘Lwwould like to see men have a little more *go' in them. Perhaps their trouble is that they had poor food as babies in the war. "This generation is far better than any other I've known. "At 18 all people are prophets. At 73

I can be one with safety. “If you do cheap things you feel uncomfortable; if you do great things, even ifthey fail, you feel comfortable. "I'm always laughing—l hate pessimism. "There is nothing the matter with life. What's the use of pushing downf Yon should push up.”