"Exalting the 'Cave Man"

“In our luxurious, enervated age we are exalting the “cave man.” By way of the motion pictures and hack-written fiction, our oversoft young people are glorifying brute strength, unconventional manners and gorilla conduct. Of course it is all an absurd pose of a period imperiled by effeminacy . . ."

[From William T. Ellis, “A Man for Changing Times,”:Washington Post, March 1, 1924, p.11]