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"The Week on the Screen: The Women" The Manchester Guardian (16 January 1926), p. 9
• The author of this article is only identified as "C.A.L.", but Guardian contributor Pamela Hutchinson confirmed the author was Lejeune in 2015.
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But the main attraction of the kinema for women rises out of a common factor in their natures. Woman is desperately personal, and the kinema the most personal of all the arts. Through it a woman can get into close touch with the shadows she has longed to meet, can seem to know them, can follow them through the whole gamut of their moods and share with them the most intense experiences. For women and because of women the "star" system has grown up in the kinema. It is nothing more or less than a commercial means of giving women the most of what they want—personality.

— C. A. Lejeune

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "But the main attraction of the kinema for women rises out of a common factor in their natures. Woman is desperately personal, and the kinema the most personal of all the arts. Through it a woman can get into close touch with the shadows she has longed to meet, can seem to know them, can follow them through the whole gamut of their moods and share with them the most intense experiences. For women and because of women the "star" system has grown up in the kinema. It is nothing more or less than a commercial means of giving women the most of what they want—personality." in the context of ""The Week on the Screen: The Women" The Manchester Guardian (16 January 1926), p. 9
• The author of this article is only identified as "C.A.L.", but Guardian contributor Pamela Hutchinson confirmed the author was Lejeune in 2015." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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C. A. Lejeune

About C. A. Lejeune

Caroline Alice Lejeune (27 March 1897 – 31 March 1973) was a British writer remembered as The Observers film critic from 1928 to 1960. She was among the earliest newspaper film critics in Britain, and one of the first British women in the profession. She formed a friendship early in her career with Alfred Hitchcock, "when he was writing and ornamenting sub-titles for silent pictures," as she later wrote.