Nobody Can Tell About This California Climate.

From Early Colonial Days, Sex Life In America Had Been Based On The Custom Of Men Supporting Women. That Situation Reached Its Heyday In The Twenties When It Was Easy For Any Dabbler In Stocks To Flaunt His Manhood By Lavishing An Unearned Income On Girls. But With The Stock-market Crash, Men Were Hard Put Even To Keep Their Wives, Let Alone Spend Money On Sex Outside The Home. The Adjustment Was Much Easier On Women Than On Men, Who Jumped Out Of Windows In Droves, Whereas I Can't Recall A Single Headline That Read: Kept Girl Leaps From Love Nest.

If We Have To Tell Hollywood Good-by, It May Be With One Of Those Tender, Old-fashioned, Seven-second Kisses Exchanged Between Two People Of The Opposite Sex, With All Their Clothes On.

...in The Past, As Now, [hollywood] Was A Stamping Ground For Tastelessness, Violence, And Hyperbole, But Once Upon A Time It Turned Out A Product Which Sweetened The Flavor Of Life All Over The World.

If Hollywood Hadn't Existed, Elinor Glyn Would Have Had To Invent It.

And What, For Instance, Would Have Happened Had Romeo And Juliet Lived To Middle Age, Their Silhouettes Broadened By Pasta?