Dorothy Mackail Raps Yale Boys, Declaring That They Are Sloppiest Individuals She Has Met-Harvard Men Much Nicer

"I think, of all the sloppy individuals I have ever met, Yale students take the cake, whether you see one, five, or two dozen together," said Dorothy Mackaill in an interview yesterday afternoon as she lounged between performances in her snug dressing-room at the Metropolitan Theater. "Yale fellows always look as if they were going to fall apart; I think that Harvard men are much nicer. You might say that the Yale boys can sue me if they want to."

"But you don't know any Harvard students," her husband, Neil Miller, who is appearing in the same act with her, interrupted.

"Well, I've seen some, and at least they wash their faces, which is more than these fellows we saw at New Haven did, and they were supposed to be dressed up. By the way, I was out at Cambridge this morning and was immensely surprised at the size of Harvard. I never realized that it was so large," she went on.

"This is the first time I've been in New England and I don't think that Boston audiences are bad at all. Everybody told me that they would be cold, but on the contrary, I think they are very receptive. The theaters, and the censors, aren't half bad, We haven't had a bit of trouble, except, of course, that we had to cut the act for the Sunday rule which says no dancing. That law seems funny to me, as I don't know of any other city which has it."

When asked about testimonial writing, she said, "I've never got even a cellophane wrapper from the Lucky Strike people, but if I pose for a bathing-suit ad, they always send a couple of dozen suits around. All I have to do is to sign a stereotyped letter."