Playboy After Hours

May, 1960

There's a theatre in Hollywood called The Silent Movie where, for a mere 60¢, you can take a seat, fasten your safety belt, and be instantaneously catapulted forty years into the past. While the film societies offer art, this establishment specializes in entertainment. The Battleship Potemkin loses out in favor of a Wallace Beery-Raymond Hatton opus called We're in the Navy Now. The popular pictures of this era recapture the past with a thoroughness surpassing Proust. In the very silence of its...