Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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Richard Dix nee type of , a cat If not, prepare to be classed amusing story about By Dorothy HERE is a comparatively new and interesting theory based on the idea that human beings not only resemble animals of the jungle, birds of the air, and, yes, even fish of the sea, but that they partake of their qualities to the extent that their whole life is more or less influenced by whatever animal or bird family they characterize. When I say a new theory, I dont mean new in years, particularly, but only lately has it been in the limelight in any comparison to Numerology and other of the sciences and fads. And now Hollywood has taken up the idea with a rush of enthusiasm — just as Hollywood does everything — and it is a very small gathering indeed that doesn't find someone sitting around picking out animal resemblances in friends and enemies. Preferably enemies. You can even go so far as to say, "He seems to be of bovine extraction," and it wont mean anything more than a scientific explanation of some man with large, moist, brown eyes and a mouth full of gum. But all joking out in the back yard, there does seem to be something in the idea, at least, so far as resemblance goes. Haven't you seen people who bore striking resemblances to cats or squirrels or horses or parrots or brook trout ? There are those who will tell you that this is no accident — but evolution— and that each little animal or bird movement has a meaning all its own. Among the wise — or, at least, interesting — exponents of the theory is Miss Mildred French. Not long ago I heard Miss French address a small gathering on her pet subject and with a weather eye to business, when her lecture was over, I asked her if any of the movie stars presented any The lion is king of the jungle and so are lion people monarchs of what they survey. . . . Mack Sennett is a lion man. And Corinne Griffith is of the aristocratic white angoras, that drowsiest and snobbiest of cats A graceful swan seems to characterize Mary Astor best 36