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Ure Summer
Flirtations Dangerous?
The Men in the Movies Say Yes The Girls Say Nonsense
By Ruth Tildesley
THEY say that summer is the silly season. Perhaps that's why summer and flirtations are interchangeable terms in this land of the freeand-easy.
Now and then a wedding ring is discovered at the end of a lovers' lane ; sometimes the first frost brings complete forgetfulness to both players of the game of sham romance ; and occasionally a broken heart is left upon the sands after the gay parasols have been packed away for the winter.
Are summer flirtations dangerous?
"I've heard that 'apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze,' " laughs Jacqueline Logan, "Just so a summer vacation without a flirtation is not recreation. The flirtation is the seasoning that brings out the flavor of the dish. There is, of course, danger. It is possible that one may fall in love seriously. But that would happen anyway and I don't think the summer flirtation should be held to blame."
Two of "Hell's Angels" — Ben Lyon and James Hall — violently disagree on the subject.
"Flirtations are dangerous at all times," says Ben, firmly. "I don't see where the weather enters into it at all. Give a woman half a chance, in June or December, and if she is interested in the flirtatious male, he had better watch out ! 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' The man who invented that line didn't qualify it one bit. He knew his romance.
Weather Thwarts No Woman
"The poets harp about spring — and a man is sup*■ posed to be more susceptible in May than in September. But no practical woman follows any {Continued on page 108)
Beginning at the left end of the horseshoe : Carmel Myers, Ben Lyon, Mrs. Wallace Reid, William Haines, Dale Fuller, Andres de Segurola, Laura La Plante, Fritzi Ridgway, Charlie Byer, Marian Nixon, George Fawcett, Virginia Valli, Louise Fazenda, and Jacqueline Logan
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