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By Jack Joseph Smith

156 ‘time, pushed’ by the theery behind'tle distruction ef the single family: dwellings And’ she thought. te thie opening of her-door, (under the -sum may my walk mayhe-be geldén, but net judged’ as:if I were: a leaf ef paper ready te be put in a banks and’ under: stars: let me not be bagged: by sentimental literature; , either: in the possession of my: own mindy er ‘by the manipulation of moneys ) She wWPs pa pees oF Inside pits Joe's her was preparing for the child- reng , dance song, One that would bring them in light» lys One that would-swirl them-again in to a delight LE tor vedtimedteams, Something te as wmethers toe, -ef@the way ef ‘their daughters engaging sleeps Lastly for-hin in thoughts children and ‘theatre were achold' out: from déBaucherys ‘The living mask ef the child and dramatist viewed’ as: creatures upon the American acest Berhn Pone* Prt iae GE SA Bette ot eovered the pain of a nomglerified birth, like the armer of a-medieval knight cevered the entire flesh ef his being assthe preventive meaning before -indul= ' (4 gence Still, old Marie sat watching, Her two early teen= | age-daughters:had joined heron the steps; but her little ‘one, ,the only with blend hair, :played’ down: the - _ gtreet under the -lamp-pest, She was in a scammers and Marié-emileds It was nice to see the little ene: leok .

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The page opposes redevelopment and monetary handling to the imaginative mask of children and theatre, treating play as one of the last defenses against a flattening modern order.

Joe's preparation for the children's song gives the scene a moral center. Against banks, sentimental packaging, and the destruction of single-family dwellings, the page holds up performance and childhood as endangered but still luminous forms of living.

Claude

Redevelopment and monetary handling are set against the imaginative mask of children and theater. The page draws the line between money's way of handling the block and play's way.