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Oakland Tribune, California, March 19, 1922 Here she is, Folks, in all her wicked wonderfulness. The Love Pirate, the Lady Vamp, gloating over her heart booty! Lovely picture, isn’t it? Yes - and that’s all it is. Just a picture! This “vamp” idea has...   High-res

Oakland Tribune, California, March 19, 1922

Here she is, Folks, in all her wicked wonderfulness. The Love Pirate, the Lady Vamp, gloating over her heart booty! Lovely picture, isn’t it?

Yes - and that’s all it is.

Just a picture!

This “vamp” idea has no more place in reality than the fabulous purple Sea Serpent! 

But is she a useful myth?

I’ll say she is!

What would the movies be without her and who would Tilly Jane blame for her Wilyam’s wanderings if we didn’t fondly believe in Vamps?

So let ‘em vamp, say I. It’s 1922 and we’ve been evoluting for millions and milyuns of years, but if we still want out voodoos and boogies, why shouldn’t we have ‘em. Why indeed.

Oakland Tribune, California, January 22, 1922

(Bandoline was a perfumed hair pomade.)

HOO-RAY! ‘RAY! ‘RAY! ‘RAY! ATTA BOY! Who said that Willie, the bandolined Pride of the Boolevards, couldn’t stand up for himself? Moreover, he denies that bandoline libel - denies it absolutely. Says he never uses talcum powder, either - or at least, not so’s you’d know it. Moreover, those little remarks about silk shirts – However, read him yourself. I announced that I was going to sit on the fence during this little argument, and the longer I ponder over that decision the more I’m convinced that Jerry was a twin sister to Solomon, that time, any way. So here’s where the lads, bandolined or unbandolined, get all the platform. And if your heart doesn’t warm to the First Speaker you’re lined with Blinker Brink. I don’t care if that lad curled his hair with Wall Paper Paste and wears baby roses on his Paris Garters – I’m for him STRONG. SPECIAL NOTICE BEFORE YOU START. NO, GIRLS, HE DIDN’T GIVE HIS ADDRESS.

Oakland Tribune, California, October 22, 1922 And the movies are teaching the sort of tommyrot which makes 15-year-old girls think seriously of love and jealousy and marriage with 15-year-old boys. But, you protest, the movies do not show 15-year-old...   High-res

Oakland Tribune, California, October 22, 1922

And the movies are teaching the sort of tommyrot which makes 15-year-old girls think seriously of love and jealousy and marriage with 15-year-old boys. But, you protest, the movies do not show 15-year-old boys and girls getting married.

NO, BUT THEY SHOW A BUNCH OF CUSTARD HEADS OF 30 AND 40 ACTING LIKE 15-YEAR-OLD BOYS AND GIRLS. THEY EXPLOIT 15-YEAR-OLD SLUSH AND GUSH, ROMANTICISM AND UNFAIRNESS, AND YOU, THE PARENTS OF 15-YEAR-OLD YOUNGSTERS GO AND LAP IT UP.

Oakland Tribune, California, November 19, 1922

I admit there are some who carry jazzing too far. BUT WHY BLAME JAZZING? IF THEY WERE NOT CARRYING THAT TOO FAR, THEY WOULD BE CARRYING SOMETHING ELSE TOO FAR. THE FACT THAT SOME HALF-WITTED BOOB TRIED TO SWALLOW A CARVING KNIFE WOULD NOT BE SUFFICIENT REASON FOR DOING AWAY WITH CARVING KNIVES.