The Innocence of Elinor Glyn
AXVUAHER recent Women's Session offering was a BBC portrait of Elinor Glyn. It began with a lush read(continued on next page)
ing from Three Weeks, which, like Elinor Glyn herself, I knew only by reputation, and which I was surprised to hear was written as long ago as 1907. There followed the jingle: "Would you care to sin with Elinor Glyn on a tiger skin, or would you prefer to err with her on some other fur?" and we were reminded that to most people these days "Elinor Glyn is something to do with sex." All wrong, we were told. She wasn’t interested in sex but in Romance, and her mission was to teach people to Love and Live. She was, it seems, thoroughly U (if the expression may be pardoned), and the famous Hollywood voices who paid their reverent tributes te the discoverer of It all agreed she was a Wonderful Woman-though with one slightly less fulsome aside from Mary Pickford, It has been shown before that the popular writers of her time were seldom cynical money-spin-nets, but artists as sincerely convinced of their worth as any others; and this was another proof of it. But I wonder about their successors, Are they still as sincere, as lacking in guile, as she was? And if so, how do they retain their innocence in this wicked world?
R. D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 24
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235The Innocence of Elinor Glyn New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 24
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