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Peggy Kurton Tells of the Flaws in
Masculine Comeliness and Why She
Has No Time to Waste on
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I harming Miss Kurton in Another Pose.
IF a vote were taken to deride who is
the prettiest pir! on tin- English
stage, Peggy Kurton, they .say, would
bo victorious. Raymond Hitchcock's
fiancee In "Mr. Manhattan,'' the musical
comedy success at the Prince of Wales's
Theatre, London, she is the blue-eyed,
fair-haired favorite of countless cavaliers,
most of whom in real life are eager to
win her hand. "Ah, but to succeed with
me you should bo much uglier and more
fascinating." is what she tells them all.
Just as Polaire created a vogue for the
ugly woman, so Peggy Kurton threatens
to create a vogue for ugly men. Hero
she tells why.
By Peggy Kurton.
THERE is something for me almost
inexplicably fascinating about an
ugly man. It is uncanny. The
uglier a man is the more 1 like him. Thin
is no new symptom. It developed long
before I played my present part, in "Mr.
Manhattan." All my friends have known
of my penchant for freak male faces for
years. Often I am held spellbound?
almost hypnotized?in the presence of a
man many people might consider per
fectly hideous!
Although I am only twenty-one, I have
seen enough of life to believe in the ugly
man?not merely to believe in him, but to
trust and admire him in preference to
the man who is simply good-looking. The
ugly man is far more likely to be en
dowed with that almost indefinable qual
ity we call fascination than the mascu
line biped who is only a male beauty.
