The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Page 23
... better for the public morals than cheap vaudeville ) and for cheap literature . The girls who throng the movie theatres are the girls who used to read Laura Jean Libby and Mrs. Georgie Sheldon . The boys who throng them are the ones who ...
... better for the public morals than cheap vaudeville ) and for cheap literature . The girls who throng the movie theatres are the girls who used to read Laura Jean Libby and Mrs. Georgie Sheldon . The boys who throng them are the ones who ...
Page 24
... better ven- tilated , probably , than their own homes . The boys and girls from eight to sixteen are the real problem . Even so , I should want to be very sure how their parents would otherwise provide for their leis- ure , before I ...
... better ven- tilated , probably , than their own homes . The boys and girls from eight to sixteen are the real problem . Even so , I should want to be very sure how their parents would otherwise provide for their leis- ure , before I ...
Page 25
... better to the screen than to the stage . Vanity Fair , for example or so I imagine . Ex- ceeding violence was done to Vanity Fair when it was turned into the play Becky Sharp . It was not Becky , it was not Thackeray , it was not Vanity ...
... better to the screen than to the stage . Vanity Fair , for example or so I imagine . Ex- ceeding violence was done to Vanity Fair when it was turned into the play Becky Sharp . It was not Becky , it was not Thackeray , it was not Vanity ...
Page 26
... better stuff , dra- matically , than Broadway gives them . Shakespeare knew perfectly , you may be sure , how successfully Hamlet would hit the groundlings . He was just as consciously writing great melodrama as he was consciously ...
... better stuff , dra- matically , than Broadway gives them . Shakespeare knew perfectly , you may be sure , how successfully Hamlet would hit the groundlings . He was just as consciously writing great melodrama as he was consciously ...
Page 41
... better company when you get back . No , don't try to persuade me , Mr. Clifden . It is n't the part of a friend . ' I cannot say I was sorry , though I had a moment of panic when Vanna offered to stay with her very much , too , as if ...
... better company when you get back . No , don't try to persuade me , Mr. Clifden . It is n't the part of a friend . ' I cannot say I was sorry , though I had a moment of panic when Vanna offered to stay with her very much , too , as if ...
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