Plan for cinema (1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Plan for cinema
Date:
1936
Publisher:
London : J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
Volume:
Plan for cinema
Leaf #:
00030
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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CHAPTER I ASPECTS OF THE SOCIAL SCENE ยง i. A tinkling piano somewhat out of tune, alter nating with amazing frequencybetween VeswyTajid Suppe's Light Cavalry, fauteuils a little ravaged by "moth, in front of us a picture of second-rate postcard texture every now and then giving a mighty hiccough, the view changing to another as if by magic. A man of immense girth is throwing what appears to be an inexhaustible quantity of baked custard at a little man of leaner circumference. The custard battle rages, the audience roars with unbounded pleasure, the piano plays fortissimo so that we shall not forget its presence and all-important contribution to the delight ; the fat villain is at last off his feet, a pot securely jammed over his head, another terrific hiccough, and 'End5 jumps at us with such vigour as if to bite us for having laughed so heartily. The piano plays an intermezzo, and we look around our environment, for we have been induced by nicely bulbous lights to enter an Electric Palace. We find the first three rows are full of children, the rest of the seats being occupied by young and elderly people of all kinds, mostly working people though, for there is yet a lurking bourgeois prejudice that these places are not cquate nace,' and we recollect it was only the day before yesterday a dignified fossil of the High 14