Flapper Style Film Clips
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The Flapper's Manifesto (Vanity Fair, 1921)
The following is an excerpt from the review of the New York production of the 1921 play, "A Bill of Divorcement" by Clemence Dane (born Winifred Ashton 1888 - 1965). With much enthusiasm, the reviewer wrote; "We know of no better expression of the creed of the new generation than that which Clemence Dane has drawn up...". What followed was a very short soliloquy which beautifully summed up not only the philosophy of the modern woman, but the philosophy of much the Twentieth Century.
| The New Fashioned Girl (Flapper Magazine, 1922)
Unearthed by a team of underpaid urban anthropologists digging all hours in the skankiest and most vile of magazine repositories was this single page of feminine poesy representative of an obscure, forgotten genre of Twentieth Century prosody that celebrated a brash cast of woman that was once known as a 'Flapper'.
Alas, the name of the poet is lost to time.
| Recognizing the Good in Flappers (Literary Digest, 1927)
"Scorned for too long by churchmen as an ambulatory example of folly, the flapper at length finds herself defended by the Church. She is not, in this new view, the brainless, overdressed Jezebel that she has been pictured to be. 'She is a symbol of the times. As she sweeps down the street, she is like nothing so much as a fine, young spirited puppy-dog, eager for the fray'."
Unlike some members of clergy, the wise sages of Hollywood were clearly numbered among those who held favorable views about flappers, but they didn't always produce films that were sympathetic to their causes; for example, the editors of FLAPPER MAGAZINE hated this movie. *A Film Clip from the Mad Twenties and Those Offending Flappers*
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| New York Court Rules That Women Can Smoke in Public
(Hearst's Sunday American, 1917)
This brief notice from 1917 reported on the arrest of three women for smoking in the Times Square subway station in New York City.
When the socially astute, forward-thinking judge recognized that no real crime had been committed they were released, but in the high fashion world feminine tobacco abuse, these women are like Rosa Parks:
Mary Driscoll, Edna Stanley and Elsie Peterson
let their names live ever more!
Click here to read about feminine conversations overheard in the best New York bathrooms of 1937.
| Favorable Views of the Flapper (Literary Digest, 1922)
All seemed to agree in this article that the Flapper and her contemporaries were certainly far more impolite than any of her predecessors ever were, but this is no reason to assume that Western Civilization will fall:"Tho the pessimist rant and the critic croak to their heart's content, the present youth of the land are growing into the wisest, most virile, most versatile, most capable and most useful generation since history started." *Watch A Clip About Clara Bow, Hollywood's Flapper and Jazz-Baby*
| Flappers: They're Old Hat (N.Y. Times, 1922)
Since the preceding article was jam-packed with intolerant remarks from the "lip-service" corner of the Holier-Than-Thou clerical crowd, it seemed only fitting that we post this article which dwelt upon the far more accepting and just a wee-bit more Christian feelings of yet another clergyman who tended to think that the flappers were not really as queer as everyone liked to think they were."Painting faces is no new thing except on occasion. Belles and famous beauties of the past painted for State occasions. But then it was not good form to wear paint in daylight. Now it is, apparently. That many young women now carry this to extreme is not unusual..."
Click here to read an article about the demise of a popular 1940s hairstyle.
*Watch a Flapper Clip*
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