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Girls, Pick Your Chiselers
Have you met the new gallant — the chiseler? He's successor to the sheik, only where the sheik made ardent, passionate love, the chiseler is much lighter, gayer and more casual in his attentions to the ladies — never really serious, but quite irresistible.
MEET the chiseler, successor to the sheik. The chiseler is the new gallant. His forte is light — very light — but complimentary attention to ladies. He makes love lightly, charmingly, and with engaging humor. He has a glib tongue, and is sufficiently well versed in all subjects to converse brilliantly, but makes a hobby of no single one. Never is the chiseler monotonous !
Soon a girl will be speaking of her latest chiseler as, a few years ago, she boasted of the acquisition of a new sheik. Already, Hollywood girls are mad about the chiselers.
The chiseler is an amiable fellow whose aim is to flatter all women. His mission, he claims, is to make women happy. He is a man about town, suave, alert, witty. He pays those graceful, airy tributes which women love.
"The chiseler is not a philanderer," says Bryant Washburn, ringleader of the club of Hollywood chiselers. "He never becomes serious enough to break a woman's heart. His intention is only to please and flatter her. He avoids entanglements.
'"The chiseler is less serious
Bryant Washburn is {ringleader of .the chiselers of the film colony.
Fre^i^h Here are four of the most engaging of Hollywood's chiselers. Above, Norman Kerry.
than the sheik. He corresponds to the flapper. And he and the flapper almost always war. A chiseler who can conquer the spirit of a flapper is indeed worthy of the admiration of all other chiselers."
Down at the Swimming Club, the chiselers compete with each other in being attentive to the girls. At dinners and parties, they pay court to the ladies with deft compliments, cleverly phrased to suit each individual personalit}'.
Washburn got the idea for the chiseler from a comment that he overheard a girl make about him. "He won't even flint !" The goodygoody roles he had played ever Continued on page 106
A man can be a devoted husband and still qualify as a charming chiseler — as, witness Edmund Lowe.