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DEGRADATION OF WOMANHOOD 43
A famous English actress, contributing the story of her life to a London newspaper, declared : ' Before any of the present powerful companies came into existence it was a positive challenge to engage in film work.
' There was a managing director — now dead — who was notorious for his attitude towards women. I myself had hardly been acting in his film studio two days before there came a knock on my door. I was dressed only in my chemise, so naturally asked: "Who's there?" The answer was the entrance of the said " gentleman," who thereupon, quite casually, proceeded to assault me. When I resisted he was both pained and surprised. " But I'm the managing director," he declared, as if that explained all.
1 Can you beat it ? From that moment I was the woman who really frightened him. Believe it or not, I saved the honour of a whole team of young girls. Whenever I heard a scream I would dash out, usually clad in less than nothing, shouting : " Leave that pure young girl alone ! " '
British film producers on the whole have lived down this reputation, although there is still a suspicion that some, perhaps more especially in America, are not above offering an attractive girl a job on the understanding that she will make herself ' convenient.'
1 Stars ' and producers are fabulously wealthy and their influence stretches wherever their films travel. They have every comfort and every luxury; there is nothing to prevent them being the happiest and most contented class of people upon earth.
But their work of ' interpreting ' human nature has left them no illusions. Life holds no mysteries, no thrills for them, and so they must needs occupy the time as do the characters they depict. The noble things of life have lost their value, nothing is sacred. They are the victims of their trade.
Sex preoccupation has done its work in Hollywood, and to a lesser extent in other film centres too. What further need is there to bring evidence to prove the in