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- . a a DOPE! sections of the hotel lobby and throw dishes at the head waiter. But there are two young girls who regret that ever attended one of Walter's parties; were new at the game, but they wanted to be fellows." They "hit the pipe," they "took a shot in the arm," they snuffed cocaine, just as the others did. One has returned to her home in Illinois—back to her parents—where they say that the drugs have so eaten into her system that she is dying of tuber- culosis. The other, driven to desperation because of the insistent demand of her nerves calling for the drugs, is now an ordinary street walker. Her place of business* is a shabby rooming house in the under- world district of Los Angeles; her "beat" is Main and Los Angeles streets. Occasionally, when she can lure a sailor or a stranger to her room she gets from him whatever money she can and then, as soon as she can rid herself of her companion, she rushes frantically down to "John" and buys another "shot. It is all she lives for, that "shot." And she prays nightly that she will not live very long. There are other cases, of course. For it is the young and inexperienced who suffer most. It is they who are driven to despair, and there are many in Hollywood today. The Federal officers are trying to stamp out the plague, but somehow the dope users manage to ob- tain enough to keep them happy. It has made wrecks of several once good men. One of them, m his efforts to break off the habit, has gone into the wilderness. He is trying to make a little farm pay 19