ABSTRACT
I T was the year of 1912. To place it in the perspective of time, remember it was the year of the Titantic disaster, the discovery of the South Pole, the election of Woodrow Wilson and the Rosenthal murder in New York. Motorists still wore linen dusters. Skirts were ankle length. There was a new war in the Balkans. It was the year of the tango eruption, and the year of Alexander's Ragtime Band and Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon. It was about the end of the Middle Ages in screen history.
