Imagine the city electric, some great switch thrown for the first time. At night the lights came on, turning each restaurant and theater into a blaze of bodies. How Girls Go to Bed, How Girls Undress, The Marvelous Lady Contortionist, Three Skirt Dancers , and something called The Kiss .
Scientists say kisses are dangerous, but here everything is shown in startling directness.
What the camera did not see did not exist. The real kiss is a revelation. The idea has unlimited possibilities. A skyline once dominated by church steeples had a new deity. Atop the Madison Square Garden tower a copper and bronze statue of Diana the Huntress scanned the horizon.