We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Do Men Like to Hear the Truth About Themselves?
You're afraid you'll lose him if you don't flatter him? All right, lose him — and congratulate yourself
c
Truth is a fine thing. But truth can also be a very cruel thing, and it is sometimes best left unsaid
4 LICE FA YE feels differently. Just as definitely in her way as Carole,
l\ Alice wholeheartedly feels that men do not like to hear the truth about
J_ jL themselves. And Alice had evidently given the matter more than a
little thought, because she had plenty of arguments to back up her stand.
"Theoretically," Alice began, hunched becomingly in a polo coat, her lovely blonde hair catching the highlights of the afternoon sun " — theoretically I should answer, 'Men like to hear the truth about themselves.' Perhaps that would look better on paper than what I'm going to say. But I can't help that, because I know from experience that such is not the case.
"Truth is a fine thing," Alice said, getting into her subject. "But truth can also be a very cruel thing and may sometimes best be left unsaid or, if necessary, colored a bit. Supposing you know a man who, although not perfect, (and who is?) yet is trying the very best he knows how? If you love this man you're not going to pick out his shortcomings and remind him of them. On the contrary, you're going to give him a helping hand — 'build him up' — make him think he's a little better than he really is. You're going to stretch the truth, if necessary, to supply him with all the confidence you can. (Please turn to page 44)
AROLE LOMBARD had to be nabbed between finishing retakes on "Rumba" and hopping a plane for New York and a much-needed and wellearned vacation. But before Carole left, she had some very trenchant things to say on the subject, "Do men like to hear the truth about themselves?" She thinks, definitely, they do and has her side of the argument down pat.
"Flattery," Carole began, "is, in essence, an untruth. Now it may seem all very well to win a man by flattery, but after you've won him, what then? Remember, you've got to live with him. And the kind of man you win by flattery will have to be kept by flattery." She sighed. "What a job! It means that you'll have to continue, all through your married life, thinking up pretty little half-truths.
"There's no corner on flattery, you know. If you win. a man by flattery, you can lose him the same way. Someone else may out-flatter you. Where are you then?
"Why not tell a man the truth and have done with it? You say, 'But I may lose him! ' All right, lose him and congratulate yourself. For the man who has to be won that way isn't worth the winning. A man {Please turn to page 44)
The New Movie Magazine, June, 1935