MIDDLE-AGED HEROES
MORE 'FINESSE THAN YOUNG
FILM FASHION CHANG!
NEW YORK, Nov. 34
America is developing a new type of screen lover in succession to Rudolph Valentino, who won the hearts of.film enthusiasts with his dark , hartifeomo young face, polished hair and athletic build. . Scenario writers and advisers, \of whom Miia June Mathis, the discoverer -of I Valentno, is perhaps the most distinguished,' have found that tho hearts of the girls and women who patronise the kinema are now being captivated not by the young blonde Nordic specimens of male beauty but by the middle-ia-ged debonair lover. Her recent studies ef kinema audi'.erices. have convinced Miss Matins that modern girls, as well as the elder women, are tired of young, exotic-look-ing heroes. They want a mature, dashing "strong" nian with a wealth of ,'rouiantic background. jlr Aitolph Menjou, Mr Lew Cody. Mr' Lewis Stone, and Jlr John Barry .more, midle-aged actors famous for their philandering tactics on the screen, are cited as examples of tho new type.
- "The love-makinir of these men," says Miss Matins in her latest report to ■Hollywood, "has finesse and deftness minus any great display of passion. It arouses the" admiration as well us tho sympathies of women. Screen heroes of the future, must therefore register ■more than mere physical beauty. There must bo a well-defined touch of sophisticated intelligence about their love-mak-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 7 January 1927, Page 9
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