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Hollywood — the World's Most Maligned City
WITHIN its walls some of the most popular men and women of the world — the thousands of actors and actresses who entertain millions of people year in and year out — it is natural that the eyes of the world should be turned upon it.
But in this interest which it has aroused lies also its danger — every piece of news is magnified out of all proportion— because it happened in Hollywood. There is no news in a quiet home life — little interest in its thousands of magnificent homes and gardens, its great school houses and healthy pupils, its churches and institution of culture.
Hollywood has a great responsibility and it realizes that. It has no room for wasters and no time for wasting. Work is to be done — work which must stand the test of comparison with the finest of all countries.
It is the workshop from which the world gets the most of its entertainment and pictorial art. Within its walls live men and women of culture from all parts of the world. It is the home of directors, of writers, of artists, actresses and actors.
Other arts than the cinema have made their homes in Hollywood. Chaliapin, the opera star, has bought a tract in Hollywood. Prince Troubetskoy, the painter-sculptor; Mrs. Leslie Carter, the famous actress; Charles Wakefield Cadman, the composer — these have traveled about the world and chosen Hollywood as their home. Some of the world's greatest financiers— men of vision and action — have visited us — and stayed.
I have seen much of the world. I have heard the praises sung of the Mediterranean. Even those beautiful sunny lands have failed in comparison with the wonders, of Hollywood. Its wonderful climate has made it the land of magnificent homes and gardens as well as of studios.
Men and women who have work to do, who have ambitions, homes and families, bar the door to the wasters who would bring ignominy upon themselves and their community.
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