Arizona republican., 1921-01-30

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 2e.-'No Dogs nor Movies"
 Los Angeles. like most oi the world. depends on picture people for much of its amusement. but it doesn't like them as tenants in it's houses and hunga- lows.
 Witness, as proof. those four words that are seen at the close of columns of to .rsnt or for sale ads in Los An geles papers.
 Abraham Lehr. president of the Pro- ducers' association objected strongly. at a recent meeting of picture men and members of tho chamber of commerce. to @the attitude of condescension which is constantly encountered by moving picture people" Mir. Lehr said that Los Angeles was making 1t SO unattractive for picture people that there Is talk among them of moving the producing business from Los An geles to New York.
 A General Belief
 Back of all this there Is the teellns, still current, despite the present girls seminary management of the better class studios. that the men and sirls who act in the movies are not the most desirable of citizens.
 There are churches in this city which close their doors to moving picture actors: there are clubs which are closed to them: one of the most prom inent picture directors in the business --a maator of arts and man of un- dcniable fineness and culture-was asked a short time ago to withdraw as a member of the board of directors of one of the "smart" country clubs here. not because he himself was anything but a desirable parsonage. but because tho onus of having picture people" in position of control on tho club board was said to be kecping other desirable potential members from joining tho club. He is a member of several Of the bcst New York clubs. but he withdrew from the Los Angeles organization.
 Publicity Is Blamed
 'T believe" says Mr. Lehr, "that much of our troubles arc due to uns favorable publicity. If Lizzie Jones. an unknown young woman who has coaxed her living out of a typewriter divorces her second husband and mar ries her third, the story gets a few lines on an inside page of the news papers. and no one is much the.wiser But if Lizzie Jones graduated from the typewriter to the pictures. and changed her name to Audrey McArthur, or something else fancy, her divorce and subsequent marriage arc treated very differently; it is played up on the first page of the paper and everyone knows about it and says: My my what bad lot those movie people are to be sure.'
 Look here" continued NIT. Lehr ane in proof showed the papers of the day These were a few of the front-pag' heads: Film Theater Head Accuse: Wife in Court; Judge Is Failure a' Cupid: Court in Effort to Solve Mar riage Riddle of Screen Actress; Mo rosc0 Aids Scouts Scandal: Pretty De eigner Denies That She Was in L4ol Angeles With Producer. Tn addition there was a long and fiippant storj about a young count who had just beer divorced by his aged and wealthy wifi because he was found In compromis ing situation with a pretty girl. Tn girl, remarkably enough. was said t have been a candy store saleswomar but the moving pictures were dragged willy. nflly, into the proceedings whe inc court declared that he was plan ming to go into the moving pictures | los Angeles as soon as his sl5,0o wardrobe. which is being held by a order of the court, is released
 Are More Conspicuous
 ~You will find an equal number divorce and scandal stories in th paper-or a greater number" said M I.ehr. about people who do not haI pen to be connected with the picture but they are, in newspaper parlanc played down and therefore inconspie nous. It is our contention that movin picture men and women, as class. al as decent and as lawabiding as an class of citizens. They arc unfol tunateiy. however, more conspicuou and their troubles make better reae ing"
 Mss Marian Hunter, director of tl