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BROADWAY AND
The Screens
Greatest Lover
By Ruth Alyce Townsend
Ramon Novat and Dorothy Jordan in “Devil May Care.”
WHO is the screen’s greatest lover? What sort of a chap is he? For the greatest lover can’t possibly be a “she”; at least, not according to the dictionary definition of a “lover.”
Just to make that clear, let’s consult the Funk and Wagnails Standard Dictionary for a moment. Spinning through “L” we find, as a description of a “lover,” these definitions: ' “One who loves; a warm admirer; devoted friend; as a lover of his country, or of virtue. One who is in love; in the singular now used only of the man. One who is strongly attracted by some object or diversion as a book-£oi>er; musiclover; travel -lover. One who loves illicitly.”
When “The Love Parade” was first released I sat, with hundreds of others, in enchanted interest through the love scenes between Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the former a French comedian, a singer, and the idol of Parisian followers of musical comedy; the latter a quiet, well educated, auburn haired girl from Philadelphia whose histrionic ability and marvelous voice had won for her the leading feminine role.
What was the attraction; the “love interest” in the motion picture which immediately made Monsieur Chevalier a candidate for the mystic crown of the screen’s greatest lover?
for, with all of his fine manners, his intoxicating smile, and the fact that he screens well, he would never have been selected for the lead in “Ihe Big Pond” if he wasn’t — at least
At right : Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier in