Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ewing Virgil Neal was busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester...
...successful man. His life as a track walker was happy; his wife prodded him to ambition and success, which resulted only in unhappiness and suicide for both. This was not portrayed as a result of the characters of the two people, but as a result of their wealth, their success. The whole picture was full of revealed hypocrisy, of calculated greed and rottenness, of the iniquitous effect of wealth and Yale upon the second generation...
...same thing holds true of last week's offering "The World Changes." The pioneer mother warns her son that money only leads to ruin, not happiness, but he goes on with his cattle business, in which he rises to be the big Chicago packer. He lived to see his wealth make his wife hate him and go mad, turn his sons into rotten social parasites, who uniformly come to a bad end and produce more children who are well on their way to an equally bad end. This same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which...
...importance of all this cannot be overemphasized. America has been an expanding, jubilant, barbarically confident country, with a whole untouched continent to exploit. In this milieu the dominant fact was economic growth and amassing of wealth. Naturally this became the American ideal, most blatantly expressed by the American Magazine (properly named, indeed.) The movies early responded to this and provided the delectable pleasures of Park Avenue, the European resorts, and all that goes with them under a rosy hue. It was all represented as a glorious Paradise right here on earth...
...gone. To be poor is to be happy. To be secure is to have everything. Wealth and position are not to be desired. Happiness is a more elusive thing and may be found right in anyone's modest cottage on the edge of Middletown. How deeply this Philosophy penetrates, how permanent it will be, I do not guess. It does seem to be, however, a dominant note today. TERTIUS...