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JUNE 1922
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Alma Taylor (lejl) might be .your general , and Gladys Walton (right) or Enid liennett (below) your parlourmaid.
If the shadow forms of the films could step from their screen domain and materialise into the polished butlers, the goodnatured cooks, the attractive and industrious housemaids, the handsome chauffeurs and similar domestic treasures that they represent in the movies, what an Elysium would be created for the householder !
What an asset to a household Alec Francis, the obsequious and welltrained butler, would prove ! His screen portrayals of this type of servant are famous on the films. To see this polished actor bring a letter into a room on a tray is a simple action that the art of Francis is able to engender with distinction.
Handsome Thomas Meighan, with his athletic frame, on which the livery of a butler sets with such attractiveness, was an ideal manservant in I In Admirable Crichton. He handed round the port with the air of a veteran who had in his veins generations of ancestors who had devoted their lives to " buttling." He would send up the tone of any family who captured him for their dining-room.
Although her good looks might cause havoc amongst the susceptible hearts of the sons of the house, Gladys Walton would make a demure little parlourmaid, and Enid Bennett knows how to wear the hilled cap and apron of the domestic with becoming charm, although, perhaps, she is more ornamental than useful when it comes down to dustpans and brooms.
In The Xarroiv .Valley and Alf's Hut/on, Alma Taylor undoubtedly made many harassed housewives break the Tenth
Commandment when they saw
her on the screen as the model general servant. As " Liz," in Alf's Button, she gave a very
human and true-to-life presentation of the awkward and uncouth domestic. Hut she worked with a smile on her quaintly besmeared face, and thatalone made her an enviable asset to a household in these days of discontented domestics.
It is difficult to imagine the yilded splendour of Gloria Swanson figuring in so lowly a sphere .is housework. Hut in Something to Thivk About, when Gloria cast aside her fine feathers and wore the simple print gown ot a blacksmith's daughter, she displayed a knowledge of the domestic arts that indicated that she is not entirely ornamental.
With her slim lingers stripped of their glittering rings, she performed at the wash-tub and presented an attractive picture of beaut) and soapsuds.
Perhaps the average housewife would require a few improvements to her costume before she engaged l.ila Lee as a servant. For, as the chubby, dimpled little domestic in Tin Admirable ( richton, her costume was always awry and impossibly dilapidated. But her appealing dark eyes and attractive smile would brin« charm to any kitchen.