Screenland (May-Oct 1929)

James <^fyfontgomery Cjflagg QThe Famous Artist Tells What He Thinks of the Famous Beauties of Hollywood. HAT a woman needs to make her thoroughly desirable," said James Montgomery Flagg, "is to appear beautiful and to be sympathetic. These two qualities," he continued, "I found abundant among the many screen actresses I sketched on my recent visit to Hollywood. Of course," he added, and his eyes twinkled, "when certain of these girls have humor included in the list of virtues, they are practically irresistible!" (I imagine he said 'practically,'' vvr because I understand he has a young wife at home who combines these three qualities perhaps as aptly as any girl in America.) Now there is nobody, in my opinion, so well qualified to give an impartial opinion on Hollywood beauty as James Montgomery Flagg. For during the thirty years of his artistic career, he has regarded more loveliness — draped and undraped — ■ than Solomon had wives. Besides being an international connoisseur on faces and figures, besides having created that pretty Anglo-Saxon type which is looked upon today as 'The American Girl' — you know the one r CC Carmel Myers, above, is one of the most interesting girls in the film colony. C[ Greta Garbo is the Hordic Mona Lisa, says Mr. Flagg, who sketched her. I mean, the girl who peeps out so saucily from the pages of so many well-known magazines — Mr. Flagg has been movie producer, movie director, movie scenarist, and movie actor, having written, directed and acted in twenty-four different films. That's one you didn't know! But we'll hear about the man later. First, hot off the rails, let's get his opinion of our film favorites. When I asked him his favorite of all the film stars, his answer bowled JftWES IIIOnTCClHEuy tLtJZG 1 5 v (£ Marion Davies has terrific charm, says Mr. Flagg. Right, the artist with BilHe Dove, whom he describes as 'adorable.' 24