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J. EUGENE CHRISMAN
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This ftretly girt in Hold Thai Girl can tell you Hitllywood's reputation for wickedness is greatly over-rated. Sex, to film folk, is merely something that can be capitalized on at the box-office
To Me He looked like what he was, a clean cut, smiling young chap, intent upon nothing more lecherous than a mild street flirtation but to the pretty little girl from the Middle-West, who was getting her first glimpse of Hollywood, he was a Big Bad Wolf in sheep's clothing.
She had known that it was going to happen, because, you see, she knew all about Hollywood. She wanted to get into pictures and only that devouring ambition had given her courage to face the girl-traps and the leering demons who lay in wait behind every palm tree, seeking their prey in the form of little girls from the Middle-West. Back in her home town she would have responded to that young chap's smile, perhaps had an ice cream soda and gone to a movie with him, but this wasn't her home town. It was Hollywood and a girl had to be careful.
One of the fallacies which have grown up about Hollywood is that it is a sink of iniquity where no virtuous girl is safe. Most girls who leave the old home town and journey to Hollywood, intent upon a picture career, believe that their first decision must be,
"If it becomes necessary, am I willing to give all for the sake of my career?"
Having decided, one way or the other, she looks askance at every man she meets in Hollywood, from the bell-boy who shows her to her hotel room to the picture star who drives by in his open roadster. She is certain that if her virtue survives, it will be at the cost of constant vigilance.
• Picking up a copy of a national magazine recently, I noticed an article by Emil Ludwig, famous biographer. The article was about Hollywood and in one paragraph, after speaking warmly of the home-loving citizens of the movie capital, Mr. Ludwig said,
"Any mother who is anxious about her daugh
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