Evening star., 1922-02-28
Managing a Movie Colony.

Recent events at Hollywood dis
close that the editorial mind has ar
rived at two simple and definite con-
Illusions on the movie subject: First,
that the cause Of the hectic events
that are making for notoriety in the
Aim center Is combination Of much
money and little character: and, Sec
ondly, that the remedy may be Will
Hays.
The Lafayette. -Journal-couri Is
of the opinion that "Mr. Hays Is not
leaving the Office Of Postmaster Gen.
eral any too soon If his services as
chief salvager of the movie industry
are to be effective" and the Oregon
Journal Portland) believes that "if
Mr. Hays can clean up Hollywood he
will be worth many times his salary"
for the movie industry lis very
largely what its managing men and
owners back east see fit to make it."
"WiI Hays is recently reported as
having said that when he comes into
command Of the picture show busf-
ness he will remove Hollywood to
Long Island, and he would plant q
community church In the middle OF
the settlement" comments the FIRE.
mont (Neb) Tribune, and adds that
he "will be justified in taking some
drastic measures to institute q radi-
cal reform in the life of the movie
colony"
''The plain truth is that the Ameri-
can people are paying too much for
what they receive" is the conclusion
of the Lincoln Star after commenting
upon the conflicting phenomena of
numerous so-called stars" who re-
ceive from fifty thousand to quar-
ers with a sorry tale. fearful lest
| imported films drive them into bank
ruptcy." The Topeka Capital agrees
with Louis Joseph Vance and most
people that the secret of Hollywood
degeneracy is in the luxuriance of the
continues this paper. that the uses
of an aristocracy consist in example,
the fixing Of Standards" but ito ex-
eel in vulgarity is a worthy cotem-
porary ambition" The fundamental
trouble h in in d1!o Hollywood" wood in the opinion
lack Of intelligence and common
the test of character, which is the
highest; intelligence. alone should
save any calling or any colony from
! "Quite in contrast to the Main street
state of mind is the Hollywood
| psychos," says the Minneapolis Jour-
nal, which believes that the Holly
wood way of life endangers the NOV
ing picture industry ana 2rt IN this
country" since its "shaflowness and
! willfulness" offend the moral sense
of the right-thinking average Ameri-
| can
or contrary mind is the Wheeling
! News, which declines to believe that
| the scandals that have been uncov-
cred recently" will Cripple the
/ movies in the slightest degree" but
! that "men and women who transgress
law and decency will disappear from
the movies, because eventually pro-
moters will find that people do not
| want to see them" But the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger feels that the
| chasm between real and stage life is
SO wide that "the two kinds Of life
| don't speak each others language,
! even il representatives Of both attend
the same church" and the Saginaw
! News-Courier believes that what
ever else is said Of the moving pic.
ture business 1t never yet has been
accused of too strict adherence:to the
| conventions ~-fomn1cn to ordinary
| rectors and writers aM acquire s'the
oblique viewpoint OF life. Mr.. Hays
has certainly taken on some job"
] The New Orleans States. on the other