FAIR HERO—DARK VILLAIN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 282, 8 June 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

FAIR HERO—DARK VILLAIN.

" L d'dn't like that picture of 'The Man Who Won' at the cinema the other night," sajd tho girl at the typewriter as slie placed a carbon caret ally between two sheet> of paper, "I didn't like tho hero; he was such a l'ttle dark chap-" Tho girl at the typewriter did not. know why she objected to the small dark heroin the picture-piny, but there was it scientific reason tor her obie■•tion all the same.

We road about the hero of a novel. He has a strong face, firm mouth, bright blue eyes —they blaze when ho i< annoyed—and a big powerful body. One blow from hits strong arm can foil the villain, a clever crafty chap with black hair, a black moustache and coal hJ;vk flashing eyes. Tire people of long ago portrayed the hows of their mv'tlis and legends just as we do today. Apollo, tho Greek Sun God. was doM-rlied as a blonde. The legend of King Arthur tolls us that the king was tall, blue-eyed, with golden hair, and the villains, Sir Kay and Sir Mordree. had black hair and moiiKtach'>s. Even art'sts paint the villain dark and the good man fair. The fair-haired, strong races which criginnllv came from Norway and Swc<lt'U. and later spread all over Eu.ono, have from tho earliest ages been tin* the. heroes and the fighters, the rulers. the nobles, and the explorers of the world.