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ADAM was the first man to /\ rumor that the Devil might be a woman, when he cried out in JL. explanation of that apple affair, "The woman tempted me!" But he was not the last. The suspicion has come down through the ages. It must have played in the back of the mind of Menelaus as he listened to Helen lisp her apology for her part in the Trojan War, and something along that line might have occurred to John the Baptist a moment or two before his head was served to Salome. Cecil de Mille believes there is enough foundation in the idea to title his new talking picture after a "Madame Satan." And I my self should not be prised if such were the case, though it may sound traitorous to our sex.
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Yes — And A Thoroughl)' ''Good" One, Thinks Kay Johnson
A « Interview By
NANCY PRYOR
But of this I am convinced, . . . that if the devil is a woman, she is not wicked and bad — but a good zvoman who is thoroughly idle, mischievous rather than malicious, more blundering than wicked, and more stupid than evil. For from such women all the troubles of the world are spread. A bad woman would be too obvious a mask for the Devil, who is insidious. We are on our guard against bad women who are obviously such — the siren with her painted sneer, the flirt with her shallow mind, the parasite with her empty heart. As for women the world considers morally bad, they are too apt to be hidmg a heart of gold under a sequin evening gown with darts of flame like ^\ the Devil's own masquerade. And I do not believe that is the costume of the real Lady Devil.
A Demon About the House
IF such there be, mark my words, she is wearing apron strings — with the happiness of some struggling, nagged male dangling from the ends. Of the vices she has none of the little ones and all of the big ones. No sleeping until mid-day for her. It curtails her time to gossip, to set her house running in maddening efficiency, to fill her mind with trivial, unimportant flaws in the character of her friends and her husband. For the Devil is not a lady of freelove. She is not that generous. This Woman-Devil is an immaculate housekeeper, {Continued on page 84)
She knows: Kay Johnson, at top, is the Madame in "Madame Satan." Left, a design by Adrian of a costume she wears in the picture