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ASPECTS OF THE SOCIAL SCENE 25
or call it what you will. They are designated by the original American name of 'fans.5 And the 'fan' has enabled to thrive a parasitic journalism which, by the nature of its subject matter, presents one of the ugliest aspects of the entire cinema world. For the whole purpose of fan papers (and they are legion) is to reveal in nice, gossipy titbits what sort of lives the stars lead in private. Ostensibly, of course, they 'cater for those interested in the screen,5 and a variety of other material, such as reviews and so on, also appears. Some are frankly pornographic, and are no better or no worse than other publications of the kind ; we need not concern ourselves with them; they are, as usual, quite childish in the snivelling-little-schoolboy-nudewoman type of picture they house. In passing, however, we can indulge ourselves the pleasure of a sardonic laugh at the spectacle of our pretty policemen seizing the poems of D. H. Lawrence and the novels of Mr. James Joyce whilst this rubbish can be bought at any bookstall. What is of far greater importance is the insidiousness of the better class fan paper; for it will tell you in detail Miss So-and-so's normal breakfast menu, whether she eats with gold or silver cutlery, the temperature of her bath (and, of course, the smell of her soap) she usually takes before eating her breakfast, and whether, having eaten her breakfast, she runs round her garden (with swimming pool) six times, stands on her head, plays Bach on a special mighty organ, or reads Kant sliding down the banisters, as a special aid to digestion before departure