In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.