Frances Farmer God Dies The Scholastic Magazine 1931 Seattle Hollywood Actress

  
The Scholastic: A National Classroom Magazine, entire issue, Volume 18, Number 7, May 2, 1931, in original printed wraps, generally bright and clean with very light wear-only, and a bit of dust soiling at top and fore edge. In her autobiography, Will There Really Be A Morning? Farmer wrote that the essay was influenced by her reading of Friedrich Nietzsche: He expressed the same doubts, only he said it in German: Gott ist tot. I was not to assume that there was no God, but I could find no evidence in my life that He existed or that He had ever shown any particular interest in me. I was not an atheist, but I was surely an agnostic, and by the time I was sixteen I was well indoctrinated into this theory.

The essay is accompanied by a small portrait of the youthful Farmer.