December 19, 1973 (8 pages)

NEVADA COUNTY Ser: ng the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, «ed Do L a h bug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, B San Juan, North Bloomfield, Hum RY Yew PEiLUDI caus SECTION (5-16-74 CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95814 UGGE g, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, » Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill; Scotch Hill, irchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Road work What price variety Those bad old,good old days contract awarded A portion of the Marysville’Camptonville Road at Bullards Bar has been slipping into the. Yuba River canyon and Yuba county supervisors awarded a contract for the engineering repair work. The joint venture offer of Moore & Taber and GillettHarris Duranceau to do the preliminary work for $8,500 and remaining work for between eight and 10 per cent of the project’s cost was accepted by the board a week ago. . A similar offer was submitted _by Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryfield Clair A. Hill & Associates, but public works director Dondid Frost recommended the board accept the Moore & Taber offer. The firm already has conducted some geological studies of the slide area, which will reduce the cost to the county, Frost said. The slide problem could be corrected in several different ways. George CHECK OUR DEALS.. Come To Our.. BIG SALE _ TODAY ON NEW and USED CARS and TRUCKS MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 4° ot Brunswick Road Grass Vi ‘ay — 273-9535 Mon. 5at: 8 to dark! By PHYLLIS L. SMITH There are those among us today who still blush painfully at the mere mention of the all but obsolete topless and bottomless ‘joints’. The notorious centerfolds of certain slick magazines have a few uptight citizens ready to go on a new wave of ‘‘book burning’. Censorship, per se, is perhaps as much needed in some areas as it ever was in Queen Victoria’s prim and prissy “‘prime time”’. Each succeeding generation of entertainment and excitement seekers has had the self-same problems that are facing us today. How far should’ our entertainment, whether in the areas of theatre or published form, be allowed to go? Since manners and mores change with the times, those things we liked to do only ten years ago most likely will serve only to turn us off completely today..certainly tomorrow. The pin-up girls of World War II are only faded memories to today’s Playboy Magazine readers born between the years, say, of 1920 and 1925. Before the turn of the century, ‘ variety,shows were the big , theatrical attraction in our major centers of population and they were, fora great many years, America’s most characteristic contribution to _ the art of entertainment. By the season of 1910-11 on the “great white way’’, known otherwise as Broadway, variety was being spelled ‘‘Vaudeville’’..and it was full of surprises and some dreadful Shocks for the average American theatre-goer. The obvious French influences. created new ‘‘tastes’’ in what one expected to see on. our Stages..and, at the same time, brought to life a new standard of ‘‘prudery’’ that was quite amazing in our home of the free and land of the brave! At that time George M. Cohan was becoming an exciting personality as an actor, a bestselling author and a sought-after manager. But there were those who said he’d never top his great early days with dear old Mom, Dad and Sis, as ‘‘The Four VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Wed., Dec. 19,1973 MELISSA McGLOTHLIN is too small to know what she wants and isn't quite sure about that beard. Melissa is three months old and this was her first sight of the fat man in the red suit. Cohans’’. A critic writing for a leading New York journal had this to say about Charles Chaplin “I hear he has permitted himself to be lured to act in those moving pictures. I predict that his acceptance will be _ only temporary because it is obvious that an artist of his calibre cannot long be satisfied in a field that offers so little scope for his rare talents.” One wonders what that writer might have said about Chaplin some three or four decades later? But..on the other side of that opinion fence..a chap named Norman Levy, writing for the now long defunct ‘‘Stage’’ magazine..a slick of great beauty which World War II Shortages killed off..said “There is a_ regrettable tendency-. toward vulgarity (August 1911) in vaudeville that seems to be increasing. A conspicuous example is the diving act of Miss Annette Kellerman, who appears on the Stage in a one-piece bathing garment that would cause her instant arrest on any bathing beach.” Another outspoken advocate of ‘‘censorship of the arts” wrote for the theatrical ‘‘Bible’’ known as Variety, in 1912, “Producers should remember that vaudeville is essentially a popular form of entertainment; and that impressionable young girls frequently attend these ' performances. Just the titles of some of the songs that these young people ‘.re compelled to hear illustrate this growth of indecency. If fathers and mothers realized that their 16year-old daughters are leaving their sheltered classes to be polluted at matinees by such suggestive songs as ‘‘When I woke up in the morning, she was gone’’, or “I love my wife, but oh, you kid!” they would be shocked into immediate action without a doubt.” On another occasion, the same critic really took off on an indignation trip when he said: “It is my belief that the unwomanly antics of the suffragettes have much to do with the laxity of morals reflected in today’s (Summer 1915) theatre. Some wit recently proposed a toast, ‘‘To the ladies, once our superiors now our equals’’. So long as women were content to remain in the sphere for which nature intended them, the stage was clean and (Cont. on page 6)

NEVADA COUNTY Ser: ng the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, «ed Do L a h bug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, B San Juan, North Bloomfield, Hum RY Yew PEiLUDI caus SECTION (5-16-74 CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95814 UGGE g, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, » Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill; Scotch Hill, irchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Road work What price variety Those bad old,good old days contract awarded A portion of the Marysville’Camptonville Road at Bullards Bar has been slipping into the. Yuba River canyon and Yuba county supervisors awarded a contract for the engineering repair work. The joint venture offer of Moore & Taber and GillettHarris Duranceau to do the preliminary work for $8,500 and remaining work for between eight and 10 per cent of the project’s cost was accepted by the board a week ago. . A similar offer was submitted _by Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryfield Clair A. Hill & Associates, but public works director Dondid Frost recommended the board accept the Moore & Taber offer. The firm already has conducted some geological studies of the slide area, which will reduce the cost to the county, Frost said. The slide problem could be corrected in several different ways. George CHECK OUR DEALS... Come To Our... BIG SALE _ TODAY ON NEW and USED CARS and TRUCKS MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 4° ot Brunswick Road Grass Vi ‘ay — 273-9535 Mon. 5at: 8 to dark! By PHYLLIS L. SMITH There are those among us today who still blush painfully at the mere mention of the all but obsolete topless and bottomless ‘joints’. The notorious centerfolds of certain slick magazines have a few uptight citizens ready to go on a new wave of ‘‘book burning’. Censorship, per se, is perhaps as much needed in some areas as it ever was in Queen Victoria’s prim and prissy “‘prime time”’. Each succeeding generation of entertainment and excitement seekers has had the self-same problems that are facing us today. How far should’ our entertainment, whether in the areas of theatre or published form, be allowed to go? Since manners and mores change with the times, those things we liked to do only ten years ago most likely will serve only to turn us off completely today...certainly tomorrow. The pin-up girls of World War II are only faded memories to today’s Playboy Magazine readers born between the years, say, of 1920 and 1925. Before the turn of the century, ‘ variety,shows were the big , theatrical attraction in our major centers of population and they were, fora great many years, America’s most

characteristic contribution to _ the art of entertainment. By the season of 1910-11 on the “great white way’’, known otherwise as Broadway, variety was being spelled ‘‘Vaudeville’’....and it was full of surprises and some dreadful Shocks for the average American theatre-goer. The obvious French influences. created new ‘‘tastes’’ in what one expected to see on. our Stages...and, at the same time, brought to life a new standard of ‘‘prudery’’ that was quite amazing in our home of the free and land of the brave! At that time George M. Cohan was becoming an exciting personality as an actor, a bestselling author and a sought-after manager. But there were those who said he’d never top his great early days with dear old Mom, Dad and Sis, as ‘‘The Four VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Wed., Dec. 19,1973 MELISSA McGLOTHLIN is too small to know what she wants and isn't quite sure about that beard. Melissa is three months old and this was her first sight of the fat man in the red suit. Cohans’’. A critic writing for a leading New York journal had this to say about Charles Chaplin “I hear he has permitted himself to be lured to act in those moving pictures. I predict that his acceptance will be _ only temporary because it is obvious that an artist of his calibre cannot long be satisfied in a field that offers so little scope for his rare talents.” One wonders what that writer might have said about Chaplin some three or four decades later? But....on the other side of that opinion fence....a chap named Norman Levy, writing for the now long defunct ‘‘Stage’’ magazine....a slick of great beauty which World War II Shortages killed off....said “There is a_ regrettable tendency-. toward vulgarity (August 1911) in vaudeville that seems to be increasing. A conspicuous example is the diving act of Miss Annette Kellerman, who appears on the Stage in a one-piece bathing garment that would cause her instant arrest on any bathing beach.” Another outspoken advocate of ‘‘censorship of the arts” wrote for the theatrical ‘‘Bible’’ known as Variety, in 1912, “Producers should remember that vaudeville is essentially a popular form of entertainment; and that impressionable young girls frequently attend these ' performances. Just the titles of some of the songs that these young people ‘.re compelled to hear illustrate this growth of indecency. If fathers and mothers realized that their 16year-old daughters are leaving their sheltered classes to be polluted at matinees by such suggestive songs as ‘‘When I woke up in the morning, she was gone’’, or “I love my wife, but oh, you kid!” they would be shocked into immediate action without a doubt.” On another occasion, the same critic really took off on an indignation trip when he said: “It is my belief that the unwomanly antics of the suffragettes have much to do with the laxity of morals reflected in today’s (Summer 1915) theatre. Some wit recently proposed a toast, ‘‘To the ladies, once our superiors now our equals’’. So long as women were content to remain in the sphere for which nature intended them, the stage was clean and (Cont. on page 6)