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...Animal philosophy has even degraded the noble art of dramatics to such stuff as 'Up in Mabel's Room' or 'Getting Gertie's Garter'. And along with this has followed the degradation of maidenly modesty. Evolution is a philosophy of the flesh. The modern drama is an exaltation of the flesh and the glorification of the brute. Magazines today are simply dripping with sensualism. The best seller of today compares most unfavorably with the best seller of 50 years...
...coal-not resolutions.' " Avery Hopwood ("bedroom man"): "A San Francisco police judge found a producer and nine actors guilty of presenting 'an indecent and obscene representation,' sentenced each to $50 fine or 25 days in jail, on account of certain passages in Getting Gertie's Garter, farce-comedy written by me, played by them. Said the San Francisco Chronicle: 'The cry of "Unclean! Unclean!" was raised today...
...applicants for his Literary Department. The new questionnaire is a match for any mid-years. Passing over in bewilderment such queries as "Who drinks the porter in Macbeth?" "Who wrote the famous poker scene in which Pippa passes?" and "When did A. H. Woods produce "Getting Goethe's Garter'?" the student will pause at number thirteen. For once the ancient hoodoo reems to be broken; here is a question for which he can hope to find an answer. It reads: "How was 'Paradise Lost'? Who lost it? Who found it?" Professor Lowes, in his lecture on Milton this afternoon...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock "Getting Gertie's Garter" will be presented at the Somerville Theatre. The management has announced that the first 50 Harvard men to apply at the box office will be admitted to the performance as its guests. The theatre can be reached most directly by taking a North Cambridge car to Day street and walking through one block...
...mother-in-law, an individual Watch and Ward Society, a vigorous, tyrannical, assertive, irritating person who spoils the heaven of the "Pagans" by intruding the standard of "middle class morality." As this avowed champion of virtue, Alice Fischer made the wife of the inventor of "McKnight's pneumatic garter" thoroughly detestable. Bill Pratt, orderly, nurse and friend; Doctor Gregory and James Barlow, devoted comrades of Northcote, were ably portrayed by Harold Vermilyee, David Glassford and Frederic Burt...