Photoplay (May 1921)

SOME people say in America, 'When you want to know a man as he is, play poker with him.' In Spain we say, 'Watch him in a love affair." " OMAN is a child of Nature who is not on speaking terms with her mother. " WHEN a lady begins to say, 'What do you think about love^' — then it is time to look deep into her eyes, and see u hat your heart says. Then you either move closer or run like the devil ! " '"HPHE only way to enjoy a lo\ e affair is to treat 1 it like it was the last bottle of champagne in your cellar — so seriously that you'll get all the fun out of it." " A MAN must mean every word he says to a I\. woman — while he speaks. Romance is not realism, it is art. You take a man and a woman and a little love — that is not a romance. You must have the wit and the genius to put them together." "When a man lo\es a woman who loves him, he sees in her his own relloction all the time, like Narcissus in the pno\. "Only one thing it is entirely necessary to have in romance — that is imagination. Ne\ cr lox e woman who is not an instrument upon which > our imagination may i)lay many tunes. The most dangerous woman in the world is the beautiful woman who is naturally silent. The only woman a man ever really loves is the one who is a motif for his imagination. "Woman is a child of Nature who is not on speaking terms with her mother. "A jjretty woman is a challenge. It is to laugh when i)eopIe pity a woman in the lo\"e affair. Women know from the beginning more than we e\"er learn. Lo\ e is part of their nature, while to man it is an acquired taste. "I would rather marry a woman who did not loxe me and whom I lo\"ed, than one who lo\ ed me and I did not Io\-e." Remembering him as one of the most eligible of the screen bachelors, I asked him why he didn't get married. His shoulders shrugged expressi\ eK'. "I am afraid. Women continue faithful only when the lover continues impassioned and demonstrati\e. Marriage — I am afraid of it. Lo\e's follies are its brightest jewels — but they would not ornament marriage. I don't think I'll get married — until some lady makes up her mind otherwise. Then, I am lost, of course!" I delil^erated o\ er the penance as I ate my meringue glace and Tony lit a cigarette. "I can't think of a thing," I said guiltily. "That," said Tony virtuously, "is because I am such a good boy." "Probably," said I, "it's because you're so bad." [e must be thrilled through and irough. Love, real desire, makes the )ngue of a dullard drip honey which a poet himself, if he does not love, can s\ er equal. A man really in love does 3t know what he is going to say when e starts nor what he has said when he ?ts through. But the woman — she news. "Women should be discreet. Appearice — it often hurts a woman as much 5 sin, maybe more. What a man himrlf knows about a woman, does not af■ct him. What the rest of the world news, changes his whole action. Love .akes innocent every action between a an and a woman in their own eyes. "Some people say in America, 'When m want to know a man as he is, play iker with him.' In Spain we say, Vatcb him in a lo\-e affair.' "It is by the men to whom they appeal lat women should be grouped. You in tell more about a woman by the en who fall in love with her than any her way in the world. i| "To e.xperience all the real beauty of a \e affair is the se\enth heaven on rth. But even hea\en may become inui — to poor sinful mortals once in a hile. Man is not the same as women. II men have a streak of — common, mewhere. Why, some places do they ive harems? Because in those counies they make not women who answer 1 sides to a man — spiritual, mental, lysical. W'omen today — they know )out those three .sides. That is why Is ( ere are now some happy marraiges. ij therwise, there can never be. ta; "A woman should always insist upon H :ing idealized in love — not dissected. It lis salad — this dressing — it is wonderli 1, is it not? But if you take it apart $ :e it was before in the kitchen — you ill t vinegar, mustard, and red pepper 1, that is not nice. That is one great auble with women in romance. They ii| mt to pick it apart to see how it runs. You Kave seen him rescuing damsels witK grace and dash. Here he is with Pauhne Curley in a typical scene from Mo reno's last serial. (Not his latest, but really 'his last — he's never going to make another one.)