Word: flapperisms
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Three Wise Fools. This picture fractures celluloid tradition shamefully. It has three heroes, every one 60 years old. The heroine (Eleanor Burdman) kisses them consistently on the forehead instead of on the lips. Though the picture is played in a so-called "society" atmosphere, not a flapper or a bar of jazz is introduced. Could anything be more unorthodox? The strain was too great for the nice, old-fashioned director. At the last moment he rushed in a bandolined beauty (male) for the heroine to marry...
Five years later the trio reassembles to audit the proceeds of their gamble. After going over the books for two acts the girl decides the coin spun in her favor. The odd man seeks solace with a finale flapper...
...Eugen Steinach, Viennese gland surgeon, in an interview with a foreign correspondent of The New York Evening Post, deplores the exaggerations of popular gossip, and disclaims the implication that his operation will necessarily " create a robust flapper of any wrinkled, decripit old lady." Notwithstanding, his clinic has become a Mecca for people from all parts of the world who feel the weight of years...
...sins of the younger generation, and especially of college students, have long been a subject for popular discussion; but this year the standard of pessimism has been relatively low. Perhaps moralists have exhausted themselves with criticism of the flapper; for the latest comment is friendly and hopeful in tone. In an editorial entitled "Real College Students", the New York Times suggests that the American college is not all that it should be, and that the fault lies with the undergraduate. It points out a "decline within the last generation in the dominant tone of the student body" and goes...
There are those who will object, of course. Fitzgerald, if he has done no more, has at all events painted a very lively and life-like picture of the present youthful generation in full bloom--has shown the flapper and her partner what they really are (or think they are)--has interested and amused a large percent of the careworn American Public; and for such things, should be thanked. Even if he does falter noticeably in his latest writings and his most strenuous admirers cannot but admit that he does the censure should fall "more in sorrow than in anger...