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Pictures and Pichjre$<oer
JANUARY 1925
Dangerous Age
We live in an age of sophistication, for bashful youth
rules the screen no longer. The man of experienced forty
now stands supreme in the eyes of fandom.
Forty . . . and fascinating. One doesn't say, you notice, forty but fascinating. There's something about those forties . . . something devastating. Especially among the men.
Time was when a matinee idol in his late thirties carefully guarded his secret. The public, it seemed, would not like him if they knew he was past his first youth . . . married . . . with several youngsters running about at home. That was the skeleton in his closet ; his age was his guilty secret.
But that was years ago. We know better now. In fact, the situation is quite reversed. For now, not only are most of our stage and screen lovers past forty . . . they are proud of it. They not only admit that they are past their first youth . . . they boast of it.
" We're forty," they tell the world, " and we don't care who knows it \" What's the reason? Why have the forties suddenly become known as the dangerous
Why has it finally come about that the screen idol of forty is the why of girls leaving home to go to the movies? Why does the feminine heart quicken, the girlish eye grow wistful, at the lure of a man of forty? Why?
There is only one answer. Sophistication !
This is the era of the sophisticate. Gone is the charm of the bashful youth learning " How to Make Love ... in Three Lessons."
Instead . . . we have our Conway Tearles, our Adolphe Menjous, with their studied glances, their lifted eyebrows, their air of subtle mockery. They have learned the art of love-making; with rare
Top left : Tom Meighan, the Good Luck star, who carries his years and his honours ivith great grace. Right : Conzvay Tearle. born in 1882 and first favourite with the fans.
Above: Eugene O'Brien, an oldtimer zvho faded out for a while but in "The Voice from the Minuet " and "Secrets," proved o greater draw than in his first days as a movie favourite Right : Adolphe Menjoit, whose entirely Gallic fascinations have won him a niche all his oien in scrccnland's gallery of popular personalities