We want to give the Village a voice." And when she says the Village she does not mean just the section technically known as Greenwich.

She means--I take it--that greater neighbourhood of the world, which is fervently concerned in the new and thrilling and wonderful and untrammelled things of life.

They have no place to sing, out in the every-day world, but in the Village they are going to be heard.
And I think the new Greenwich Village Theatre is going to be one of their most resonant mouthpieces! A LAST WORD And after all this,--what of the Village?
Just what is it?
"In my experience," said the writing man of sententious sayings, "there have been a dozen 'villages.' The Village changes are like the waves of the sea!" Interrogated further, he mentioned various phases which Greenwich had known.

The studio-and-poverty Bohemian epoch, the labour and anarchy era, the futurist fad, the "free love" cult, the Bohemian-and-masquerade-ball period, the psychoanalysis craze; the tea-shop epidemic, the arts-and-crafts obsession, the play-acting mania; and other violent and more or less transient enthusiasms which had possessed the Village during the years he had lived there.

Not wholly transient, he admitted.
Something of each and all of them had remained--had stuck--as he expressed it.