[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XVII 6/27
The gods are not always on the side of those who throw fits. There is here appended a newspaper description of a crusading film, that, despite the implications of the notice, has many passages of charm.
It is two-thirds Action Photoplay, one-third Intimate-and-friendly.
The notice does not imply that at times the story takes pains to be gentle.
This bit of writing is all too typical of film journalism. "Not only as an argument for suffrage but as a play with a story, a punch, and a mission, 'Your Girl and Mine' is produced under the direction of the National Woman's Suffrage Association at the Capitol to-day. "Olive Wyndham forsook the legitimate stage for the time to pose as the heroine of the play.
Katherine Kaelred, leading lady of 'Joseph and his Brethren,' took the part of a woman lawyer battling for the right. Sydney Booth, of the 'Yellow Ticket' company posed as the hero of the experiment.
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