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...eviction of Imogene marks a serious break in theatrical tradition. Heretofore chorus girls, particularly Follies girls, were supposed to get themselves into the newspapers. Newspapers or separation papers???it all came to the same thing. The public reads and runs to the box office. Witness Countess Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner who can neither act nor sing nor dance. Simply by her extraordinary endurance and ability to keep on getting married and keep on getting in the newspapers she keeps on getting star's situations in expensive musical revues...
...morality society of which I am President spent ten nights in London public parks collecting data. They found 746 cases of impropriety, indecency, immorality. I then wrote a letter to the papers complaining of widespread immorality and at once became the center of a storm of indignant protest. The papers???particularly the Daily Express?inveighed against me for sending ' paid spies' to interfere with ' innocent courtships' and ' harmless wooings.' The papers called attention to the fact that I myself am a celibate...