Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrena van Gordon, noted American contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera Company who sang a leading part in Wagner's "Lohengrin", said this in her suite in the Hotel Ritz Carlton yesterday afternoon. Miss van Gordon pointed out that after all, an artist was a human being. She was especially prejudiced against men who carp at traces of individuality in the work of operatic artists...
Asked what she thought of companionate marriage. Miss Gordon answered that it was a repulsive idea to her. "It is merely a step for encouraging promiscuous sensuality," she said, "and I do not believe in it because it puts the idea into a man's head that he can at will get out of all family responsibilities. Men are very much like children and they should not be allowed too much legal leeway...
After this vigorous comment, Miss Gordon diverted her conversation to the subject of sex on the operatic stage...
...This Woman Business" passes three acts in the agreeable proof of that old psychological fact--you can't win. A six months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...
...without being a Dr. Straton, he is not sanguine in the opinion of one school of adult commentators, that his contemporaries, with all their frankness and freedom, are still as strongly supporting the moral conventions. They are not, even if they have no spokesman to admit it. The precocious Miss Benson has discussed the subject in Vanity Fair, but she really is too young. Without being accused of ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth, fearing the sensationalism that dogs his step, has chosen...