She Always Gets Her Man

NZ Truth, Issue 1168, 19 April 1928, Page 2

She Always Gets Her Man

"'/"■ENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES' is going to be 13 a great woman's picture," said B. P. Schulberg, who supervised the production of the Paramount picture based on Anita Loos' classic. "Every woman who sees it is going to enjoy seeing the male characters of the picture yield to the glib, innocent-seeming flattery of the litt,le, defenceless girl, who has no weapons but her sharp wits. "For it is the utter foolishness of the male sex that Miss Loos ridicules. It was there, hidden sometimes, but there nevertheless, m every line of her book. Malcolm St. Clair, director, and hia splendid cast, put that same spirit into the picture. "Lorelei, like those famous Canadian policemen, always gets her man, with her ulterior motive of his pocket-book. It is not exaggeration, either. Miss Loos has simply hit on the fact that most men are waiting around for some clever little gold-digger to pluck them. It makes no difference what kind of man he is — a girl as shrewd as Lorelei could get him. "In the picture we show dozens of men succumbing to her wiles — she gets them all. There are farmhands, business men, travelling salesmen, policemen, judges, college boys and reformers. It makes no dif- , ference what the nationality or the occupation. Lorelei is smart enough to get them. "And so those people who think that Miss Loos' satirical darts were directed at the gold-digger are wrong. It is the male sex she aimed at — and hit." Ruth Taylor who plays the role of Lorelei was selected for the part from among 10,000 applicants.