Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMB. 19, 1921. CLEANSING THE FILM WORLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2357, 19 November 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMB. 19, 1921. CLEANSING THE FILM WORLD.

THE demand I hat I lie film industry in (lie United Stales shall forthwith “(dean its house’’ is spreading over the United States. The “orgy” which resulted in the indictment of Arhnekle is hut one of a long series in which film “stars” and producers have recently figured in various parts of the United States. Yet it is only just to the many reputable film producers to emphasise, as the Secretary of the Los Angeles Morals and" Efficiency Asocial ion does, that the “great body of actors in filmdom are not involved” by the investigation he has just completed. The results of this investigation he has placed in the hands of the Public Prosecutor. They disclose an appalling sate of licentiousness among a coterie of grossly overpaid actors and actresses, who have Kune to be known as the “live one hundred” of Los Angeles onl Hollywood, a . suburb where many film actors and actresses have their homes. The police have long had their eye on this particular coterie, from which tin' -best known artists of Hollywood keep rigorously aloof. Stories of the unbridled license of these people, who seem to command unlimited wealth, till the newspapers.' An appeal has been issued by the National Organisation of Picture Theatre Owners of America urging that tlfe public refrain from accepting the “indictment hastily, unthinkingly made” against their industry as the result of the Arhnekle case. They argue that the majority of theatre owners and film actors tire also good citizens, who ought not to be smirched by the improper conduct of a small minority amongst them.