The greatest of all censors - the American public - is beginning to vote thumbs down on the hard-boiled realism in literature and on the stage, which marked the post-war period... The handwriting, now plainly on the wall, is that America is largely through with the post-war preoccupation with morbidity and crime in literature and drama. The orgy of self-revelation which marked such a large portion of modern authorship is passing. We have a new, younger generation, now rising from the jazz age, that promises to support clean, high-purposed entertainment.