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L^enrii Sex Appeal ^^ at HOME
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Brings Big" Returns
Easily Mastered — Let
Dorothy Mackaill
Tell You How
I WAS interested, and a little amused, not long ago when visiting First National Studios in the interests of ni}', ahem! art, to be told that they were rebuilding, as it were, Dorothy Mackaill's sex appeal.
"How did she — er — mislay it?" I wanted to know. Anybody could understand that for a young lady to lose her sex appeal was serious. What with the Alice Whites and the Lupe Velezes coming on with such indubitably compelling brands of that commodity, any studio with a pretty girl like Dorothy under contract would take great pains to see that she should not suffer a slump in that direction.
"Well, you see, we had had her plajinj roles where she wore boys' clothes and slicked her hair back and all that sort of thing," I was told. Ai>-
"And presently we awoke to the fact that that wasn't doing her any good. So we took steps."
"What did you do.?" I was getting more and more curious. A recipe like that might prove to be a handy thing for any woman to possess some time.
"We undressed her."
Dear me! Now wouldn't that be a man's idea of how to do it.' I could have thought of that, myself.
In further proof, an optimistic press agent produced a still i>icture of Dorothy in "The Changeling," showing her
Whether you show your knees or don't, according to Dorothy Mackaill, has no influence upon your physical attraction. It's sex of one and half a dozen of the other
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By JOAN DARBY
dancing, clad in a silk hat, one or two
widely scattered beads and several dozen
^ bananas. Well, of course, he had me at a
disadvantage. Being a woman, I wouldn't
know whether the desired object had been
achieved or not. There was certainly plenty of
Dorothy showing. And I wondered whether
J sex appeal increased proportionately with the
number of square inches of — ah — skin exposed.
Further consideration convinced me that that
could not be. If it were true, the fat girls wouKl
have all the luck, because of the advantage they
have of area. And any modern flapper will
you that the half-pints get all the
breaks.
I paused to consider the other sexy gals who have had and are having their day in pictures — to say nothing of the men.
There were, of course, Theda Bara and Nita Naldi. Buxom lassies, they were, with plenty of acreage, should the first theory prove true. But, try as I would, I could not remember that I ever saw either of them clad only in a pineapple or a few plums. My impression was that they had worn yards and yards of black velvet. Yet, somehow, those two did contrive to look distinctly undressed on the screen.
So, for that matter, does our Greta Garbo. Sloofy, {Continued on page 120)
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