Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

(Left) A girl, a pet dog and a man saying "Never Again." (Above) She tried to brighten up the evening but then it went sour. cier-the-skin from wants appreciation ^vhen he takes her out and it's up to her to show some appieciation. Bob Taylor, like his brothers-unMaine to Mexico, too. "It burns me up," he said, slapping make-up on his handsome brow, "to bring a girl a couple of orchids that I've carefully selected, that I've gone to the trouble of having made up into a nice corsage, and then have her take them as if they were some tired old geraniums, saying, in that bored voice, 'Oh, so nice of you. Thanks.' "I think girls do that to impress you, to make you think they're used to having a truck load of orchids drive up to the house every day. Maybe they've got Erik Rhodes / The orchestra was swell, the floor was fine, but the girl was a sitter-outer! some cockeyed notion that they don't want to 'spoil' a man. But nobody is spoiled by a little enthusiasm and appreciation. It doesn't hurt her to break down and thank a guy sincerely for the flowers he brings." It's pretty hard to think of anything else but him when you're talking to Bob Taylor, but I forced myself to think of Isobel and the corsage my )oung friend took her. They weren't orchids. (Only rich boys like Bob Taylor can afford such flowers.) But the cost of the corsage doesn't matter. The attitude is what counts. Soap weed or camillias, graciousness is expected. Bob doesn't like a girl who talks too much. She should be dressed neatly and with taste but never in a flashy manner. And he, along with every other man in the -world, hates to see his girl make up in public. Bob's girl must be a good sport (that describes Barbara Stanwyck all right) and more interested in him than in the place he takes her to. He can't abide the demanding t\pe. In other words, the petty golddigger can do her panning in another stream. It infuriates Bob when the girl says, " Oh. let's not go there —nobody -iviil be there. Let's go where the crowd is." "That's like a glass of cold water right in the face," said Bob pat ing in some cold ^vater with the grease paint. "Maybe I'm wrong but when a girl pulls that I get the idea it's not me she likes but a lot of other people. Oh yes, she must be a good dancer." Eleanor Powell seems to think that Jimmy Ste\vart is just about ri ht as an escort. A lot of others think so, too. Jimmy isn't handsome, in the strictest sense of that none too strict word, but he has charm and humor. "When I date a girl," he said, "she's got to be ready for anything. She's got to be as crazy as I am. Maybe that's because I am nuts but I say what's the use of a date unless you can forget every trouble you ever had and cut loose. \V'hen a girl isn't game for anything, when she doesn't feel like getting u]3 from a table at the Troc and going to the beach to ride roller coasters then I sav it's s]:)inach." There's another question that I think ihc girls would like to know about. I took a sort of straw vote on the matter not only from the Hollywood bachelors Inn from other attractive lads not in the pittiue business. Suppose yoin dale wants to kiss yoti whew he takes yoti home. Well, what ol ii? Is lhai an) reason for getting on u)ur high horse and roller skates and sa\ing, later. "Now honestly what does he expect?" If he's a nice, atlra<ti\e \oung man who isn't going to take advantage of a kiss (and certainly if you're smart )ou can tell what K)rt he is after a couple of horns in his society) then what's so wrong about it? Girls make a lot of luniccessarv fuss o\cr a good night kiss. To mosi decent lads it's a laiily casual gesiiue of friendship and \Coiil ill iii tl on Jitigc OS I James Stewart 19