FAMOUS SATIRE AIMS AT MMES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

FAMOUS SATIRE AIMS AT MMES

ANITA LOOS’ WIDELY READ STORY 44 ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ is going to be 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.” he continues, “is going to enjoy seeing the. male characters of the picture yield to the glib, innocent-seeming flattery of the little, defenceless girl, who has no weapons but her sharp wits.

“For it is the utter foolishness or the male sex that Miss Loos ridicules. It w’as there, hidden sometimes, but there nevertheless, in every line of her book. Malcolm St. Clair, director and his splendid cast, put that same spirit »nto the picture. Lorelei, like those famous Canadian policemen, always gets her man, with her ulterior motive of his pocket-book. It is not exaggeration, cither, in my opinion. Miss Loos has simply hit on the fact that most men arc waiting around for some clever little gold-digger to pluck them. It makes no difference what kind of manhe is—a girl as shrewd 1 , 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 difference 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 p. ii from among 10,000 applicants.