College men are the most unpleasant escorts a dancing girl in Hollywood can have!
Actors are second-worst, while the best escorts are the young earnest-minded chaps who work in offices or banks.
This is the decision of “The Goldwyn Girls” bevy of Hollywood’s at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios.
The chorus girls made their statement after co-eds at Stanford University came out in print, listing their pet “gripes” against college men also.
“College men think they’re doing a girl a favor when they take them out” said beautiful blond Elaine Johnson, a tall statuesque “Goldwyn Girl”. “And they think that because a girl happens to work in motion pictures that she has no other thoughts other than ‘necking’. Well, they’re wrong. We are all ‘career girls’ and they out to know that silly things like ‘necking’ are archaic to us”.
“And” added Dorothy Belle Dugan, former UCLA student and also a “Goldwyn Girl”, “the college boys call you ‘babe’ right from the start. If you go out with one of them once, he thinks he ‘owns’ you from then on. They try to impress you by offering you their fraternity pin when most of us have outgrown that stage years ago”.
“As for actors”, says Blanca Vischer, “all they do is talk about themselves all the time. They walk sideways, getting a stiff neck, so you won’t miss their profiles and if there is a producer around, they almost known you down trying to get to him first. Hardly chivalrous is the actor, say I”.
“But a bank clerk, office works and just plain honest-to-goodness ‘he-men’ are really difference, from or point of view”, adds Gail Goodson, also a tall blonde. “They seem to think it’s a big thrill going out with a ‘Goldwyn Girl’. They flatter you, tell you how beautiful you are and want to be seen places with you. And they’re always asking you to marry them. Which is a rarity with a college boy or an actor – they’re too selfish to think of that!”
Daily News (Los Angeles) 5th February 1936
