Bruce struggle for the love of Herbert Mar-of this picture coming to the Cathay Need Men Be Tough in Hollywood One hears that Mr, Robert Taylor growing rather tired of demonstrating his masculinity, a mas-which was more or less forced on him by the demands of the American public who feared that their new hero exhibited a certain strain of effeminacy. "The Crowd Roars" should have been quite Cough to satisfy the doubters and seems to have been enough to satisfy Mr. Taylor. Robert Taylor's dilemma was rather difficult to understand and not unlike that which befell Freddie Bartholomew a little while ago.
Master Bartholomew's speech was suspect: there was in it not a little trace of mincing. So Master Bartholomew had to take off his coat, roll up his shirt-sleeves and show that he had a pair of fists as well as a pretty. face. One does not know that he is any the better for it or has acquired a superior box office value.
Taylor is less easy to One cannot see how anyone could ever have suspected him of effeminacy Mr. Taylor's new demand is said to be for a more romantic role. This seems to imply a distinction between romance and muscle, a distinction which has not usually keen recognized by novelists and dramatists. But the vagaries of the public in this respect are dificult to gauge. For instance, Mr. Leslie Howard does not strike the ordinry observer as the muscular ideal, but so far as one knows he has not been accused of effeminacy as his box office value been impaired. This may be merely because Mr. Howard is a better actor than Mr.
Taylor.
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