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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 13.

Film Rights or Private Press?

Film Rights or Private Press?

Prof. von Zedlitz placed this happy alternative before incipient authors of the Literary Society. He gave them the choice of publishing small volumes at their own expense and remaining sole proprietors of most of the copies, or of winning name and fame by pandering to the public taste for "best-selling types." He mentioned a few types from modern fiction: a romantic dentist; the noble physician whose rugged, manly face was like a sunlit rock, whose forte lay is blood-transfusions from his own arteries; the country doctor and his grinding struggle for existence in spite of a superfluity of midnight confinements the lover who loves sleep and appetite; husbands with extravagant wives but who never had bills themselves; country women with a passion for the wine-dark moor; the prostitute; the grandmother the modern girl, had, cruel, living on cocktails and chewing her own lips.

The discussion of the modern girl type led to argument about the possibility in art, or any other clime, of the perfect woman. "Most interesting." said Prof., "but I never felt any urge to describe the perfect woman."