Judge, 1920-06-26 · page 25 of 37
Judge — June 26, 1920 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page features a glamorous portrait photograph of a woman wearing an elaborate wide-brimmed hat with decorative elements, accompanied by text praising her dignity and composure. The caption quotes producer Henry W. Savage engaging actress Clara Moore for a leading role in a play called "Shavings," noting her exceptional dignity. The stage director John McKee reportedly hired performers "for many reasons, but this is the first time it's been for dignity." The satire appears to mock the theatrical pretension of the era—the irony being that Moore is being specifically *contracted* for dignity as a professional attribute, suggesting either that such qualities were unusual among actresses, or that the theater industry cynically packaged and commodified even intangible virtues like "grace" and "dignity" as marketable performance traits.
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