The Sins of Hollywood ()

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6 THE SINS OF HOLLYWOOD Privately they have lived, and are still living, lives of wild debauchery. In more than one case licentiousness and incest have been the only rungs in the lad- ders on which they have climbed to fame and fortune! Unfaithful and cruelly indifferent to the worship of the youth of the land, they have led or are leading such lives as may, any day, precipitate yet another nation-wide scandal and again shatter the ideals, the dreams, the castles, the faith of our and girls! It is for these reasons that the SINS OF HOLLYWOOD are given to the public- \ That a great medium of national expres- sion may be purified—taken from the hands of those who have misused it—that the childish faith of our boys and girls may again be made sacred! Fully eighty per cent of those engaged in motion pictures are high-grade citizens self-respecting and respected. In foolish fear of injuring the industry, Hollywood has permitted less than one per cent of its population to stain its name. The facts reported in these stories have long'been an open book to the organized