Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1935)

If you want to be utop" in WHAT Have «/^>ii Lj As told by your favorite |IRLS can learn a lot about themselves from men." So say the popular young stars of Hollywood. And the things which they have learned from men are things which you, too, ought to know — that is, if you want to be "top" in some man's datebook. Take, for example, some of the thoughtless little habits you indulge in. Did it ever occur to you how irritating they can be to a man ? You may be a knockout for looks and have a swell line of talk, but if you're one of those girls who is always dropping something, you may one day find yourself wondering why that new man you were so keen about never came back. That, at least, is Glenda Farrell's observation. "I have vet to meet a man who isn't annoyed by the girl who is constantly dropping something," says Glenda. "First it's her gloves, then her bag or her compact or her theatre program. Some girls think it's cute to have a man groveling at their feet to retrieve something they've dropped but it is a poor way to get attention and men don't like it. "The strangle-hold-while-dancing is another thing which men dislike," says Glenda. "A man likes to feel that the girl he is dancing with is as light as an armful of thistledown. If she drapes a heavy left arm around his right shoulder, it certainly spoils the illusion." "If you want to hold a man's interest," says Frances Ann Dv orak: "Don't do too much checking up on his whereabouts, dislike feeling that the women they love doubt them.' Wen Maureen O' Sullivan: "A man's you make career is usually an enemy of his more important than career you will lose a girl him." If Jeanette AiacDonald: "There's something about idea of having the one and the male ego which only girl listen to his enjoys the opinions." Glenda Farrell warns girls against doing annoying things to attract the attention of men 54