The End Of Innocence
February, 1997
The End of InnocencePart II 1910--1919They are everywhere. Girls run to catch trolleys. Your stenographer is a looker, the telephone operator has a voice that haunts your dreams. The woman who sold you a ready-made suit is a vision. You walk past girls standing in line at the movie theater to see larger-than-life heroines: the Vitagraph Girl, the Biograph Girl, the World's Most Perfectly Formed Woman. And, if you have the price of admission, a late-night trip to Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies will a...