Playboy After Hours

June, 1966

Longtime readers of these pages may recall an After Hours essay (November 1961) in which we deplored the disappearance of such grand old silent-screen-star names as, so help us, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Ferdinand Tidmarsh and Mergenthaler Waisleywillow, and the emergence of drably uninspired modern-day movie monikers—Rock Hudson, William Holden, John Wayne and their innocuous ilk. It saddens us to report that subsequent delvings into vintage film archives have served to substantiate our original the...

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