" MEN ARE UGLY PUPPETS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17889, 17 September 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)

" MEN ARE UGLY PUPPETS."

FRENCH WOMAN'S OPINION.

Yvette Gailbert has brought to France | something more than her school for artistic young American dancers, writes the Paris correspondent of, the New York Herald Her latest hobby is criticism of the male sax. and those who know Mile. Guilbert before she visited the great American desert are wondering who revised her ideas. She is all for woman's rights, and when they get them in France, Heaven pity the poor males. Here is Mile. Guilbert's latest wail direct from the stage, where her youthful devotees proved to an admiring French audience that America produces art as well as thirsts:— " We are all nothing but puppets, and the men are uglier puppets than we. Especially when they are undressed. You only need to see them bathing in the sea in bathing trunksthose big stomachs, those toothpick legs. Oh, yes, that is all very charming, for we say, ' I love you." How admirable. " But woman's time is coming, and then . But after all we are not much better than men with our plaited hair and our saintlike airs. Beware the future." Yvette' sufiragisms are causing much comment, especially among husbands with Erofessional wives, the latest problem eing whether the husband of a woman doctor or lawyer has the right to open his wife's mail which is likely to reveal professional secrets. Leading barristers declare that he has not, but this opposition has been countered by the fact that under the French law a husband has the right to prohibit his wife from continuing in a profession which would interfere in any way with his conjugal authority.