Catchword: ten-twent-thirt

Filed Under: English, Entertainment, Movies

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: The result has been, so the theatre managers themselves agree, not only the practical extinction of the cheaper melodramas which used to cater to “the masses,” the “ten-twent-thirts,” as they were called, plays which had no literary quality whatever, and were never so well done as film-players do the same sort of thing, but also the practical desertion of the gallery seats for dramas of the better sort. A generation ago it would have been almost inconceivable that a man would build a theatre without any gallery in it.

Article or Document Title:
“Class-Consciousness and the ‘Movies’” (URL)

Author:
Walter Prichard Eaton

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Atlantic

Date of Publication:
Jan., 1915

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