On women reading

Last updated on: December 9, 2015 at 10:58 pm by Dan Peterson

Belle sits down to dinner with the Beast, — The Beast was quite a bit more . . . well, beastly in most of his pre-Broadway-musical incarnations. Here he is in an illustration by Anne Anderson (1874-1931).
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“It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas, and thinking . . . “

Gaston, from Beauty and the Beast

I’ve been feeling rather down for the past 24-36 hours. I haven’t liked what I’ve been seeing, politically and culturally.

So it was a relief tonight when my wife and I took a friend and her granddaughter to an exceptionally good BYU student performance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast — superbly choreographed, extremely energetic, very well acted, and worthy (in my opinion) of a Broadway stage.

It cheered me up quite a bit, and took my mind off other things for a while.

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