Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to SatireNathan, George Jean
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Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to Satire
Nathan, George Jean
American wit and humor
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BELASCO
Act I
The Hampton Shops
The Edison Electrical Supplies Co.
Act II
The Tiffany Studios
Thorley
The Edison Electrical Supplies Co.
Act III
Vantine’s
The Antique Objets d’Art Exchange
The Edison Electrical Supplies Co.
SHAW[1]
Act I
Platitudes
Act II
Platitudes
Act III
Platitudes
[1] Transcriber's Note: All three “Platitudes” printed upside down in
original.
VILLAINY
The villainy of a character in the American drama is appraised by an
American audience in accordance with the following schedule of black
marks:
1. Black moustache | 20 points
|
2. Riding boots | 36 points
|
3. Riding boots and crop | 47 points
|
4. Foreign accent (save Irish) | 29 points
|
5. Top hat | 8 points
|
6. Patent-leather shoes | 8 points
|
7. Long cigarette holder | 4 points
|
8. Well fitting clothes | 52 points
|
9. Sexual virility | 84 points
|
10. Good manners | 76 points
|
11. Inclination to believe that a woman over |
twenty is perfectly able to take care of herself | 91 points
|
12. Inclination to believe that a woman over |
twenty-five is perfectly able to take care of |
herself | 92 points
|
13. Inclination to believe that a woman over thirty is |
perfectly able to take care of herself | 93 points
|
14. Inclination to believe that women between the ages |
of thirty-five and ninety are perfectly able to take |
care of themselves | 94 points
|
15. Inclination to believe that women between the ages |
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