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Ten Handsome
By Adela Rogers St. Johns
Lewis Stone — The man-of-the-world, the aristocrat, the diplomat, the seigneur
Ramon Novarro — The perfect troubadour, lyric charm and the beauty of a Greek boy
IT is no longer considered quite the thing to speak of manly beauty. I don't know why. The word beauty need not necessarily be effeminate. If a woodland spring is a thing of beauty, so is the storm-tossed ocean. If a violet is beautiful, so is a mighty oak. The Greeks and the Romans and the Vikings of old had a standard of masculine beauty and they played Olympic games, fought wicked battles and conquered vast and unknown deeps in no mean fashion.
In the animal world, the male of the species is always given ornamentation in the way of mane and bright plumage and such like.
CTILL, if I tried using it now, the very men I selected would ^ arise and call me very far from blessed. And as I shall probably be in enough hot water without that, I shall simply call this my choice of the ten handsomest men and let it go at that.
Herb Howe, as you will remember, picked the ten most beautiful women on the screen and he has been in hiding ever since. He built himself a monastery in Beverly Hills with a white plaster wall twelve feet high across the front of it and you have to stand outside and shout your conversation at him. When Herb included Nita Naldi and left out Norma Talmadge it was like shouting "Long Live the Czar" in Petrograd.
When it came to picking out the ten handsomest men I had no idea there would be so much excitement. Hut I brought the mere idea up at a quiet and supposedly friendly little dinner at George Fitzmaurice's the other evening and in a moment soup and rolls and caviar were Hying all over the place; to say nothing of words and phrases more poignant than polite.
Upon Enid Bennett's declaring she thought So-and-So the handsomest man on the screen, her husband, Fred Xiblo, said that personally he much preferred Farina. Mrs. Yidor having admired such and such a gentleman's personal appearance. Mr. Fitzmaurice called attention to the fact that his mouth opened endwise like a fish. While one and all. male and female, contended violently for some favorite who, while qualified as an actor and even perhaps as a gentleman, certainly had no place in any list compiled solely upon my idea of good looks.
Bearing all this in mind, and with the private conviction that to be good-looking a man must have strength, cleanness and intelligence combined with artistic symmetry of features and body, I present the following list, which is the result of several months of concentrated thought:
Richard Barthelmess, John Barrymore, John Gilbert, Richard Dix, Ramon Xovarro, Reginald Denny, Ben Lyon, George O'Brien, Lewis Stone, and Ronald Colman.
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GeorgeO'Brien — The most irresistible thing that
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Ben Lyon — The way football heroes should look in their street clothes
Jack Gilbert— The fiery Slav —that stirs your pulses with the wanderlust
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