LIVES OF FILM STARS
MR ARLISS IN DEFENCE ENGLISH DOCTOR’S CRITICISM LONDON, June 4. Good and bad words for film stars wore said respectively by Mr George Arliss, film actor, at a meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, and by Dr H. W. Taylor, at a meeting of the Library Association. Mr Arliss said: “ Hollywood is not a wild and wicked spot. Work there demands a clear brain and reasonably keen intelligence. The industry would not continue to exist if actors were careless of their moral and physical behaviour.” Dr Taylor scathingly criticised British film actresses. “ They are all thin-lipped, and about two nutmegs in weight,” he said. “ All appear to be about from 14 to 17 years of age. I am told that Mae West weighs more than one or two nutmegs, but she is not British.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 13
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