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Adolphe the Elegant
An Impressionistic Pen Picture of Menjou, the Master of the Sophisticated Shrug and ^ the Emotional Eyebrow
Caricature by John Decker
By Gladys Hall
FIRST stage Adolphe on the Screen.
The suave Sophisticate . . . the risque dilettante . . . the Man At>out Town with whom Little Mabel would be sate only as tar as the corner and under guard of the Mounted Police . . . dangerous . . . debonair . . tonsorially perfect ... an Klegant ... a sipper of wine, women and song, when and where wine, women and song are most consummate, most costly ... a dropper-in at night clubs where night clubs are most exclusive, most inaccessible ... a white gardenia in a buttonhole . . . ■a butterfly alighting for the moment ... a Last Word . . . the sort of perfection that hides a worm at its heart . . . the Exquisite who bends over a fair and tapering hand just long enough . . . never too long ... a Philosopher of Passion ... a Psychologist of Love . . . doubting all things . . . believing nothing . . . the Eternal Lotlwrio . . . the cosmopolite Don Juan . . . An incapable of the profondities ... a scoffer at sanctities envy of all average men . . . the despair of all average women . . . the despiser of gaucheries . . . the casual Wooer . . . the disdainful Winner. . . .
He Is So in Celluloid
Cor Adolphe a woman must be a strain of music filtered thru mid-night jade ... a woman must have
mother-of-pearl finger-tips and a manicured soul . . .
She must be clad in satin and sables and evil lace . . .
She must speak with accents of liquid and license. . . . In his eyes all the weariness of satiety and dead hope
. . . hope forever unfulfilled ... in his eyes graves of
dead dreams . . . dreams relinquished with a perfect
shrug . . . tired eyes . . . cynical . . . disillusioned . . .
mocking . . . mocking ... a fur-lined coat and a silk
hat ... a gesture that says . . . Ooo. la, la, what does
it not say . . . ? Thus the Menjou.
Second Stage
A dolphe Himself ...
A tired looking man of medium height . bow tie .
A careless a slight tendency to unshavedness ... a pair
of horn-rimmed glasses that keep slipping to the bridge of his nose, thus giving him an incongruously kindly, even paternal expression. . . An Egotist, but an egotist about his work, not about his wiles . . An eager, nervous didactic way of talking about "My work" ... a simple, kindly soul : ingenuous, frank, outpouring ... a good man who is devoted to his mother . . . who is lonely in Xew York . . . who stood too long in awe of his wife . . . who never during his marital career went out of an evening . . . who never looked at another woman of himself "I am really harmless, perfectly hannle-s . (Continued on page 87)
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