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ANOTHER VICTORIAN AGE IN SIGHT?
WE CAN'T BE DARING FOR EVER.
A NEW PURITANISM ON THE WAY.
DARK PROSPECT WITH A GLEAM OF HOPE.
[BY JAMES LAVER]
Writing in the "Evening Standard" Mr. James Laver sug-. gests the possibility of a Puritan Revival. We are not, he, shows, more emancipated than the men and women of French Revolution and Regency Times.
Is there another Age of Addison coming, when all our witty women novelists will be looked upon as. 30 many perverters of Innocence, when the novel itself will be banned from decent houses as it was banned in our grandfathers' time? Will the stage of to-day be considered too filthy to touch?
The ladies of, 1500, going about | in their single garment of trans parent muslin, with short hair and few prejudices, rajoicing in the French Revolution and fancying themselves emancipated, little reck ed of the Victorian Age which was to come after them. They did not foresee that in thirty years'
Religion itself as an inspiration, time the stays which they had cast. off so joyfully would be clasping as an ideal, is always with us, but unmercifully the delicate bodies of a system of taboos, as an excuse their daughters, and the voluminous for tormenting the young, and skirts which they had discarded harassing the indigent we have hap would be enfolding the limbs of the pily abaken its yoke from our next generation in yet more ample necks To-day we are not religious
they did not care. Rebellious Will some far-sesing prophet take daughters are. apt to make stern advantage of that to plunge us mothers, and one fortunate genera- once more in all, the horrors of a tion in three seems to taste both religious revival? the delights of an independent youth and the pleasures of a dicta- torial old age.
MAY 16th, 1928.
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But it is not only such "people who pine to face the camera. Many
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Those Short Skirts. One hopes not, and yet there is Napoleon himself forgot that he distinct danger of something of the kind happening, One cannot had been a revolutionary, and the go on being daring for ever. Very only confirmed and strengthened by soon there is nothing more to be daring about; and perhaps we the restoration of the Bourbons should not even enjoy our liberty Loais ascended throne of France, and Prudery re-school. sumed control of feminine fashions. From the era of mock modesty which ensued the release is recent enough to be remembered by all but the youngest of us. It was not
once more
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only our grandmothers, but our
mothers, too, who had taper waista, and had to lift their skirts before crossing the street. The knee-long garments of to-day are less than
decade old.
Shall We Grow Prudish? Of course, we look upon ourselves as the children of Enlightenment, but so did the ladies of 1900, We awear that we can never go back to long skirts and long hair, but so did they. Is it possible that we, too are mistaken! What if another Victorian Age should be almost
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upan ust Shall we too grow prudish, delicate, and shrinking? Shall we faint upon sofas, and sacrifice to the Moloch Modesty even the fruits of our own common The danger is not so remote as might be imagined. There is al ways & mass of middle-aged opinion (middle-aged in both senses) to cry out that the world is going to the devil, to think that young people were never so wicked as they are to-day. We are, indeed, by the standards of almost any other aga than our own, an immoral lot. The plays we see, the books we read the things our fappers say would make even the light ladies of the nineteenth century abudder in their coffina. To swear like a fapper may soon become the accepted sub- stitute for the older phrase, and we must all have heard stories" from the lips of innocence" which would formerly have been in place is smoking-rooms only.
we had not just escaped from There is a limit to the shortness of skirts, and when they have become a short as they can there is nothing for it but for them to grow longer again.
Action and reaction seem to be
whom common sense should forbid even a visit to a "still" photo- grapher blithely send in their pic tures-protruding teeth, unshapely faces, and worse figures notwith- standing to agenta and studios, confidently, asking for a chance. in the strange studio lights become hope can the positively plain have? There unfortunate folk are dazzled by hearing of the large salaries and luxurious homes of the faw film stars at the top of their profession. They forget that most film actors are mere extras," who, if fortunate, cara a pound & day now and then and are expected to look amart on it. Yet the screen- struck include Civil Servanta who would abandon future pensions, clergymen who would forsake their calling, mothers of families who would leave everything, sedate, middle-aged. folk
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Pathé Pictorial or into bondage! Did they feel with Graphiu know, to their confusion, Gaumont what a disillusionment this may be,
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It may be urged that even Mary Pickford rose from nothing. But ahe for many years slogged in a theatrical touring company, dress- ed standing on a soap box because her room was ankle-deep in water, stiffered hungry days, hard work, more hard work. And she had Perhaps they did, and so they turn- ed from Napoleon to the Holy screen looks, talent, unique per- Alliance, from Directoire décol-sonality, and brains, a letage to high-necked bodices, from instinct, an iron will, experience semi-nudity to a multiplicity of nad luck! petticoats, from the slippery slope of too much liberty to the "decline" of too much coddling..
Is that going to be our fate ↑ Will the unfortunate young women of the next generation be compelled to wear skirts down to the ground? Will they have to sit at home on Sunday, reading "Good Words," instead of joy-riding over the coun- tryside on the pillion of a motor- cyolet Will dancing be shorn of its frankness and its jazz, and will the chaperona yawn once more in rows the full length of every ball- room?
Tennis-Or- Croquet In A Bustle.
Let no one think this is a fanci- ful picture 1. It has happened once; it may easily happen again. A new Puritanism, a new Prudery is on its way, and even the writer of so innocent, a warning as this may one day be classed among the "im moral authors of the Georgian period."
A Reaction Coming. Then tobacco! We smoke pro- digiously, and have completely for- gotten that King Edward VII. when he was Prince of Wales, did In this dark prospect there is one hot dare to smoke in his own room gleam of hope-tennis, and the
business
To sapire to emulate her is to aspire to emulate an Edison or s Melba. To hope to make a good living by screen acting is, for all but one in every ten thousand, mere folly, and quite frequently folly backed by conceit.-Daily Mail.
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Our books! Everyone will admit they could not have been so easily that the novels of to-day are pre-crushed. They wore flimsy skirts, occupied with sex, especially the but as they had no particular use novels written by members of what to put their legs to their legs were used to be called "The Sex" be banished, not only from sight, but
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