Evening star., 1950-10-22
A Woman Of Science
Scans Hollywood
Tribal Rites, Terrors, etc., of Colony
Make Lively, Readable Volume
By Joy CormodY

Hortense Powdermake written Hollywood and
did than introduce anthopoogs
Powdermaker, this would be something.
One does not anthropoogss named Hortense
Powdermaker every day fact they millennium and
they obviously do not have write books Hollywood
attention.
enhancement with Miss powdemakers name implies no
rrverence toward her achievement Hollywood
Factory It out of the
most ttlang b-ne in contemporary writing has been
Cementne Paddeford whose subject food
put it down teachey if she hereafter this
correspondent shall be going around dream with Miss Powder
maker.
1t Makes Readable Critical Volume
She girl well anhropologst enuogh to find
fascinating tribal right True served an
served her strength to accomplish her greatest work at home This
muse which no reporter could fail to admire
What has come of this?
In three words readable book
Hollywood the Dream Factory" is the only
scientific mind but style probably
will not become beseer list but it will be
more readable work than which achieve this
Miss Powdermaker writing about the people who dble
daily through several hundred Hollywood more
she has angle gamorous creatures
HoIywoods Neuros and You
1t dramatic angle namely
sne movie people upon us OF nnocents exposed daily to
actory-the taboos conflicts Illustrations customs ec-Mss
As community histories fascinating stuff 1t
left this reader with feeling that Miss Powdermaker
lively sequel in Washington she cared
the private lives another group of public creatures taboos
conflicts and tribal rites good
The contents which spill out of Miss Hollywood
display of thousand ragmentary revelations by other
crlcS capital
original point of view This is illustrated the
sexual mores OF the film colony to single out detail the
Guilty which she found to exist charged past
She Reports 1t Simply Doesn't Pay
mss Powdemaker treats this not with the standard
Indignation OF other writer's She observes
obectvy that ambitious girl thinks over
generosity gets her anywhere.
This same aloofness toward judgment what made
one read Adous Huxley with enthusiasm
he younger.
Miss Powdermaker (whose a newsprin
was clearly warmly welcomed in HOLLYWOOD
residents fairly flung themselves her antropogss
Whatever Out of the a they told her. antropoogss
method has made lively reading.
Money is the sturds root of the evil that Hollywood
Miss PoWdermaker finds 1t has split the community
dozen conflicting forces writer's writers who
oes actors actors who regard their
None OF these can get along with without another
Not Typico CopoI-Lobor Quorrel
Miss Powdermaker as traditional CAPITAL
labor conflict but something
1s wy-ny, tyrannca creative sensitive
and subject to more acute neuroses.
She gives the individual histories of
these mramura conflicts; telling the stories
Ready Mr. Mediocre and dozen Others
IN her book thus masked behind labels
Bergman Crosby Rosselni and
daily columns or in the fan magazines.
Hollywood the Dream Factory" unsympathetic
report on the communal misery. Its obecvy
merclessness Miss PoWdermakers intimate
intimate aspects of the movie colony life left
singular intelligence is at work here
has its normales well its abnormaites
not close the door to the possibility that
operate to the advantage of the glamorou tribe
lived And of whom she writes interestingly so many