THE PERFECT LOVER

President Coolidge has signified that he has no intention of presenting Ramon Novarro with a make-believe diploma at the graduation exercises at Annapolis, thus definitely refusing to appear in an ordinary motion picture. This is not an official rebuff, but merely a little personal modesty. Even Presidents have their qualms.

Doubtless Mr. Coolidge feels that he could never make a great motion picture star. Perhaps he is right, but there is always room for an intelligent and hard-working young man in Hollywood. Who knows what a little brown grease painter, a gay turban, and an Arab steed might do. The screen is perpetually looking for a successor to the great Valentino.

Although Mr. Coolidge coyly shrinks from the legitimate motion picture, he blandly confesses that news reels are all right. Now news reels are not all right. If Mr. Coolidge knew how unutterably foolish they have made him appear on occasion, his feelings would be quite reversed. Evidently it doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel. But isn't it a bit undignified, even for a President?