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"If there are any male drivers in San Francisco, who are obsessed with the idea that women cannot 'keep their heads' when at the wheel of a motor car they will be disillusioned by watching the feat of two Los Angeles girls, Marjorie Cole Dougan and Nell Shipman, in driving an Essex car called the 'SX Arrow,' into the Devil's Punch Bowl [...]. Over sand dunes and sagebrush, across arroyos, over boulders and hummocks, up and down precipitous inclines, slipping and sliding, backing and plunging, once with their rear wheels overhanging a 400-foot precipice the two brave girls attained their objective without serious mishap [...]."
-- San Francisco Chronicle


Source:
San Francisco Chronicle. "SX screenplay shows women as motorists: Arnold shows Essex movies; Call of open road will be aided by distributer's interesting picture." San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1921.