Social Register
Reasons for removal from the "Social Register" have traditionally been opaque. In the early 20th century, historian Dixon Wecter observed that those excluded tended to be persons unfavorably reported upon in the press and that, as long as one's private life "keeps out of the [newspaper's] columns" the risk of exclusion was low. The "Social Register" also tends to exclude people of "illegitimate" industries, such as motion pictures, regardless of wealth or social status.