" a bit of sweet candy in series"

After her divorce, Irène seemed to have found poetry no longer her métier and dropped her male pseudonym as the somewhat well known (at that time) poet "Claude Lorrey". Using her real name for new ventures in new media and already at the epicentre of feminist avant-garde film as scriptwriter and business partner to Germaine Dulac, she published in late 1919 the Dadaist and iconoclastic "Voyages en Kaleidoscope" and "Par Amour", both attacking the wide range of societal values that to her and her circles led Europe blindly to the senseless slaughter that was World War One. The american cinema-serials had by now overtaken the french film industry. The Miss Pearl White series, "The Perils of Pauline" were the most lucrative. Below, Irène takes one of several shots at celebrity american style:  

                                                        

Miss Pearl White

drop the tabloids (they say) ?

Too bad for us !

Ah! I know well -- it’s fashionable

(to say)

-- it’s poor taste

in these days of (dry) cocktails and cocaine

(Surely !) it takes such courage to prevail in one’s opinion in this discussion (simple)

-- Do you love éclairs vanille ?

-- Me, I’m mad about them !

it’s stylish these airs “ Protect the Innocent ”  towards (and against) all pleasures (simply and all heart!)

Charming !

(“ and these breezy good times that make life lovable ...”)

WE

happily

(the days are gone where the show gave us nightly editions of our daily concerns. On stage (at the time) with corpulent gents discussing their gastric discomforts and The Stock Tickers (sic) as  their ladies shed frozen tears from their embarrassment of riches all in taking their friend’s inventory)

PEARL                  will she marry

the Handsome Man

(hounded after her mask comes off, (aims her revolver at) 

the felon who her family ........ clumsily fated.. for her ....)

                                          for marriage

                                                                  Pearl

this fine lad

                    clear eyed

                             pure as gold   

                                 faithful and forceful  

                                     

who will escort you with ready firm hand

Oh! yes ! ! yes ! yes !

 embrace him ! wed him !

                           ( at the end of the 35th episode) 

                                                        Pearl

 “ Cheer up !  This is good Comedy ” 

Excerpt from Irène Hillel-Erlanger's "Par Amour" Littérature, issue #10, Paris, December 1919