Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-21

woman; 70 West" The first seekers
for the gold coast had only wild cats
and hunger and thirst and deserts and
violently resentful Indians to contend
with. The pioneers Of the new age, the
adventurous and restless young women
who drift to Southern California In the
search for glory and who are more nu-
merous than you would suppose, are not
SO fortunate as the original trail blazers.
A few rise and shine, to be sure. It
is Of those who don't that the people
of California and magnates at the top
of the movie world are thinking when
they say that the fringes of Holly
, wood will have to be cleaned up. Holly
woods 3 clock breakfasters are setting
pace that makes upper Broadway
seem in comparison like the old farm
stead of blessed memory. There Is moth /.
ing like it elsewhere in the United
States, or for that matter in the world.
Victims Of Too Much Money
We are the only people who give chill
tlren twin skies to play with and shower
wealth upon people in whose hands
money can be almost as destructive as
dynamite. Fatty may be in one sense n
victim of circumstances. But he is,
first Of all, victim of too much money.
Brady, the prosecutor, has implied
broadly that some of his witnesses have
been tampcred with. But the contra :
s,dictions of Mrs. belmont may. after
all, have deeper and subtler sig.
nificancc. She was, il seems, one OF
the unsuccessful strugglers in the desert
hinterlands of the Hollywood com &.
munity. and the defense will contend
that it was Al Semnacher, one of Fat
tvs satellites, and not ArbuCklc him
| self. who invited her and Virginia
Rappc to the wild party in the twelfth
floor apartment at the st. Francis
What Mrs. belmont saw and heard
when she forced her way into the room
where Arbuckle stood over the wailing
Virginia appears TO have brought a mo-
mentary revCrsiOn to type. There
was nothing of code of acceptance re-
flected in her fury, half maddened at
the sight of the girl in agony and the
sound Of Fatty saying Shut up or III
throw you out the window"
Most of what she said on that oc-
casion Mrs. belmont later retracted
She had been away in the meantime,
and the fundamental woman called to
the surface for n short and terrible in
terval seemingly gave way again to the
hopeless struggler in the lowest and
dreariest ranks Of the movie army.
Pictures Show Bruises
Zey Provost and Alice Blake, who
alone may be able to make out even n
good case against Arkuckle, are of diff
ferent metal, if appearances mean any
thing. They did their best when they
arrived here Yesterday to look like an
army with banners.
II saw enough" said Miss Provost,
''and I'll tell it when they put me upon
the stand, and not before"
Il was only there for little while"
said Miss Blake. land I don't know
why they brought me here at all. 1t
makes me i'll.
This leaves Brady with his photo
graphs. huge pictures made after Vir-
ginia Rappe was dead, and showing
long black marks on various parts Of
the body which the prosecution will pre-
sent to the shrinking eyes of the jury
women to prove that the girl died as a
result of brutal attack. Three physi-
clans have testified to the belief that
these marks could not have been made
after death. Even if the District At
torney's importantant witnesses fail,
the pictures will make 1t hard for Ar
buckle and his lawyers.
Yet the prediction is that Arbuckle
will be acquitted. The Women's Vigi-
lance Committee. recruits for the most