Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-10
SCANDAL IN THE MOVIES.
Great Industry Needs to Be Reformed
or Destroyed.

Great Industry Needs TO BE HeIormeo
or Destroyed.
Investigation Of the murder at Holly
wood of William Desmond Taylor, mo-
ton picture director, says the Green
vile Piedmont, bids fair to reveal as
much moral rottenness as the motor
ious Fatty" Arbuckle case.
Despite the fact that one of the
female stars compared Taylor to COD,
from what the police have found out
about this custodian of elegant night
gowns it seems that he bore close re-
semblance to the devil.
A special. dispatch from Los Angeles
to the Kansas City Star says that the
murder of this man may never be
solved, adding:
There are hundreds of substantial
citizens who see in the case the iron
hand of the moving picture giant, hold
ing down the curtain that the police
and the newspapers would lift.
"They believe the movie interests
would spend millions Of dollars not to
catch the murderer, but to prevent the
truth from coming out, to avert the ex-
posure Of Hollywood, to squelch, before
it is born, the scandal Of the century.
Taylor, who seems to have deserted
his wife and baby fourteen years ago,
who lived under an alias, who sur
rounded himself with people of doubt
full character-men who sew, crochet
and embroider women Of queer rcpu-
tatIon-and who lived the typical life
OF the movie director as pictured in all
the gossip Of the studios, was the
saint of Hollywood" according to his
friends. ....
ut is quite true that the movie world
would prefer to have this case handled
in silence, even ignored. ....
Associates regret the death OF Tay-
lor sincerely, but they feel the least
said about it the better. '
"They fear the world may come to
know all about the little parties that
help to relieve the tedium of studio
e..
between extra girls, assistant movie di-
rcctors, and many instances, between
stars. 'r
"They fear that there might be some
MISUNDERSTANDING if the fans learned
about these very free moonlight parties
sometimes held in the Beverly Mills
district, where nYmphs dance in cos
tunes made purely of melting sun
beams.
Hollywood Is content with itself, it's
morals, it's views of life. 1t wants no
change. 1t wants no chastisoment. 1t
wants to go on.
1.-THE movie bosses are in power in
Los Angeles.
They have been able so far to keep
down the blinds. Did an exposure
threaten they vowed to leave Los An
ge!es bag and baggage. Los Angeles
can i'll afford to lose the millions Of
dollars spent and invested by the mov-
les.
"If the movies leave Los Angeles the
city will suffer"
Most people, however, will agree with
Herbert Brenon, well known. motion
picture producing manager, who de-
clares that the moving picture actors
colony at Hollywood. California. where
Taylor's murder took place, should be
broken up.
But will that put an end to the rot
tenness among some of the movie pic
turo actors and actresses? Will that
stop some of the moving picture direc-
tors and magnates who compel women
to purchase employment at the price of
their virtue?
At any rate, every scandal that
comes to light is bound to hurt the
moving picture business and create a
public sentiment that will insist on
c'eaner people and cleaner pictures
Grecnville Piedmont