Excerpt from The Lure of the Traffic: A Melodrama of Social Evil, in Six Acts and Nineteen ScenesThis horrid but necessary play must have come~ to those Bohemians who witnessed the first produc tion with an appeal as powerful as it must have been unwelcome. The course of the drama runs inexorably down the ominous history of Bohemia from its start in the simple, care -free home by the Sacramento river, through the slightly elaborated life on Pine street, through the complicated, changes at Post and Grant avenue, through the artificial simplicity amid the ruins at Post and Leavenworth, into the ornate luxury of Post and Taylor. Every where through the scenes of the play, like the winding slime which marks the serpent's trail, glistens malevolently the track of that intruder who plots to cast out Music, Art, Letters and the Drama and to substitute for them the, essentially, modern device of the'motion picture. Not even the thrilling denouement which discloses the whole thing as a gregarious [sic] blunder, serves to wholly or in part remove the depression created for the thoughtful witness by The Lure of the Traffic. None should miss it though many are sure to.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.