The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-02-06
SAYS MOVIE COLONY
MUST CLEAN HOUSE
Herbert Brenon Calls Holly
Uood Center of Vice.

Characterizing the motion picture col
ony at Hollywood as being a place no
torious as a center of vice." Herbert
Brenon, motion picture producer, in an
interview yesterday at his home, 121
West Seventy-ninth street, said the
shooting of William Desmond Taylor
probably would result in the cleaning
OUT of the entire colony there.
Il think 1t would be a good thing if
Hollywood were abolished" said Mr.
Brenon. discussing the Taylor case, land
| think 1t is inevitable as the result of
the latest scandal. The colony should
be scattered, and it will be as the result
of the indignation which will cause mo-
ton picture directors to reluctantly give
up the idea of segregated producing
center.'
According to Mr.. Brenon. who has
made study of the industry and has
presented and produced many noted pic
lures. the reason for the conditions of
vice in the colonies on the California
coast is the fact that the actors and
persons In the profession are segregated
and form world of their own which
they feel sometimes is immune.
/ shudder when / think Of this Taylor
murder and the conditions which 1t sug-
gests," said Mr.. Brenon. THE industry
is bound to suffer as a result, just as IL
received a setback after the Arbuckle
case Persons all over the world regard
such happenings at Hollywood as repre-
sentative of the entire moving picture
Industry which they are not"
Asserting that SO per cent of those
in the industry were the equal in morals
of persons in any other profession, Mr..
Brenon said that the actions of the
vicious l per cent had given a bad
name to the rest.
Hollywood Is not representative" Mr..
Brenon said. you don't hear of those
things happening at the studios or
places in the East where the motion
picture people are. The trouble is that
out there the colonies are exclusively
composed OF motion picture people. They
have to rely upon themselves for their
amusement, and many have fallen into
tho bad tricks which have resulted in
giving the entire industry a bad name.
"Out there, where everything is mo-
ton pictures. the persons live. think and
talk pictures. Their lives are not nor
NAL and they don't have the outside d.
veK'ion which we In the East do. The
small minority which ! mentioned who
have made money quickly and have lit
| tie or no character, have had their
I
who bring discredit upon us, and the
good suffer with the bad. Here Is New
York we do not live together.
I'VE are separated and have our
friends outside the profession. Right
here in my apartment ] am surrounded
by business men, bankers, lawyers and
not by men who live. cat and sleep and
think moving pictures every minute OF
the day and night That's the answer
to the conditions out on the coast.
III the fact develops that the muir
dcrcr. man or woman. was connected
with the motion picture business--which
God forbid--it will be very bad for the
entire industry. IL will not stop the In
dnstry. for 1t Is a part OF our national
life and In the main Is clean and whole
some. The stories OF protracted vice
which come from Hollywood and other
studios know little Of personally, but
believe that where there Is smoke there
must DO fre.'"