HOLLYWOOD’S NEW POOR

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 87, 6 January 1933, Page 5

HOLLYWOOD’S NEW POOR

jypi. EDMUND GOULDING, mi English director of moving pictures, after a visit to Hollywood, said iu an interview with a representative of the “Daily Mail”: “The most extraordinary poor iu the world are the poor of Hollywood. Jt is essential to their profession that they should starve in splendour. Their poverty must be hidden behind tlie gay clothes and the gay smiles of their calling. Without proper food and without proper sleep they must appear care-free: they must be able to walk and talk brightly; they must fit themselves into any one of a hundred moods. To help these people, Mrs. Abe Lehr, whose husband is general manager to Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, has formed a League of Assistance, whose members go in search of the secret poor. Often the people who are helped in tins way do not know that Mrs. Lehr and her friends have searched them out. Every director in Hollywood co-oper-ates with Mrs. Lehr, ami every director marks those names on his list of extras with an X to remind him that they are necessitous eases.”