The Washington times., 1922-04-14
PURIFY MOVIES
|. BY bLACKLISTS,
NOVELIST URGES
EIinor Olyn Suggests Public
Keep From Shows Of I'm
moral Actors.

NEW YORK, April 14.-Elinor
Glyn, author OF Three Weeks" !"
grandmother. moving picture seen.
afro writer and dancer, gracefully
decorated q sofa in an apartment In
the Hotel Plaza, where she is staying
on her way to her home I'm Paris
after q years visit to Hollywood. Cal.
She said she considered the present
criticism Of the moving picture in
dustry unjust and exaggerated.
Hollywood people have the kind
est hearts In the world" she said.
And for me charity covers a multi
tude of sins. I wish you could see
those little girls who get $3.50 a day
for going on as extras and only have
an engagement for a week or two at
a time share their clothes and their
lodgings with the girl who is down
and out. They give thousands Of
dollars to charity, and they work
sometimes supporting a wholt family.
How do you suppose they could find
time TO do all the evil things attribut.
ed to thenf2
"Arbuckle Party BeastIy."
II think the Arbuckle party was a
beastly, disgusting affair. These
things should be stamped out by pub
tc opinion. Don't 60 TO see the
films of persons you don't respect.
Personally l think the directors are
TO blame for employing people who
have so little background and gocd
taste that they can lose their heads
when they Unexpectedly find them
selves rich.
But among all the stars with
whom worked and whom ! saw In
their homes only one or two were
dope fiends. The great majority
were honest, woodworking people
with great temptations. Often
thought their manners were toe
familiar. But l often seen that In
New York, too.
THE moving picture industry is
only about ten years old Naturally
a lot of riff-raff gathers about it ar
first. IL requires young and beauti.
full girls. The result is a rather pre-.
carious situation. Chaperones Ger.
tainly would not do any good. The
only hope for girl In Hollywood or
anywhere else is her self-respect and
her pride In her work. IL is not
true that a girl has got to go 20 fast
parties and act Flip to get on In the
movie business. I believe real ability
is recognized there, as II Ia every
where.
"The Perils of Pauline
"I wish some Of the old wives
and splnsters who do the censuring
could have to go through the love.
making with eight different men a
year that these girls do. Would
they be proof1 Don't you believe
/ Il. Suppose one OF them Is married
TO an unexciting husband. She
plays opposite a young Greek god
all day. Naturally when she goes
home in the evenig husband seems
hopeIessly dull. New York brokers
come out 20 Hollywood In private
cars and give brilliant parties for
these girls. OF course they want
to go.
After all II never saw dope
party II stands TO reason there
couldn't have been very many.
think the case OF Fatty Arbuckle
and the murder of Mr.. Taylor will
make things very much quieter
there, and do not think the in
dustry should be injured by further
criticism. -a
"I think the present ridiculously
strict censorship of the movies
works just the way prohibition does,
Because the law forbids drinking
people, like naughty children, do II
more than ever. Films are more
speakingiy indecent than IL thers
were no censorship at all"
Mrs Glyn will sail for Paris
April 20 on the Olympic.