Life — January 7, 1909 — page 47: what you’re looking at

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e class Bobby ed and rid o° mother. 0 your The Worst Enemy of the Theatre I do not say that the Jew discovered sex, but he certainly hit upon its commercial value in ection with the drama. Something of this, of course, was known before; it remained for the Jew, with his infallible instinct for the weak- ness of human nature—an Eastern gift, by the way.to develop it to the full; in short, to get the business out of it. That he has done this, no competent observer will deny. In the the- controlled by him, vaudeville or what-not, we get nothing but sexualized entertainment that makes its covert or frank appeal to the baser incts. His genius for business and management enables him to spread the contagion far and wide. All the country over, from the big city to the “ one- horse town,” you find the same kind of show and the same kind of acting and the same kind of fellow in the box-office counting the mone} I pass over the legends explanatory of the pro- jection of certain beefy and brainless bayaderes who haven't abilities above dish- But the earnest student of the drama may well be puzzled that a country like ours, which is notably poor in all that concerns true art, should have some dozens of women ex- ploited as great actresses and heading their own companies, while in France where the art of the theatre is carried to the highest excellence, we tion of only two or three famous rhe explanation probably is that art while the Jew makes ored country. . « . ago I dropped into one of the finest New York. I turned to the mag- the like of which Shakespeare never saw or even dreamed. Thereon a large young woman was exhibiting her flesh—most of ‘tress in Franc —and singing a vaudeville song in the color- less, unlovely voice that seems to belong to all “artists ’ of this type. Between verses She kicked and danced with as much suggestion as she could command—of art or true grace there was nothing at all. She varied her act a little by reciting a few “ gags,"’ more or less flippant and smutty, in that exasperating phonograph \oice of the female vaudevillian. Her perform. Will You Accept This Business Book if We Send it Free? Sign and mail the coupon below. Send no money? Take no risk! One hundred and twelve of the world's master business ten have written ten books—2,079 pages—1,407 vital business ideas, methods. 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