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12 DOPE! ists, composers, dancers, whose names are indelibly written in the list of the world's great artists. When the shower of gold fell this latter group held its wits—in the main. Here and there one dropped into the mire of licentiousness and incest. But this was rare. The great actor of the spoken drama rarely got very far in the movies. He refused to fit into the scheme as laid out by those who held the purse ■ It was the upstarts, the poor uncouth, ill-bred "roughnecks/' many of whom are to-day famous stars, and who never knew there was so much money in the world, who made the Sins of Holly- wood the glaring, red sins they are tu-day. After the first few weeks of plenty, of full ing, the days of penury and vagabondage faded into the dim vistas of the past. Then came indulgence in the common, ordinary vices of the average being. And still the money lasted and even increased. Then tne appetites became jaded and each tried to out- dissipate the other. Strip poker parties of both sexes, wild drinking debauches and lewdness, motor cars in designs and colors that screamed and shrieked-^dogs and cats as aids to stimulate the imagination. The odors of the Tenderloin and the lobster palaces. Poor, futile mimicry! s Then one day a certain well-known and muchly adored heart-breaking star of the so-called "manly" type taught them something new. And this is how it came about: This star—who shall be called Walter—had tried out something. In his mad endeavor to provide for himself a thrill not written down in the Movie Vice- alogue, Walter sought out several habitues of the