IT WOULD be the easiest exercise to draw a moral from the revelations of the manner of life favoured by a section of the “movie” plutocracy of Los Angeles. Those who are ever eager to disparage the shadow drama of the screen will doubtless use the opportunity to the full. For ourselves, we discern no evident connexion between the conduct of the persons concerned and their profession, except that means of lavish indulgence are derived from the film industry. Such orgies as those described by some of the newspaper correspondents are a warning to all who seek to impose fanatical restrictions upon the liberty of the individual. Drug-taking has enormously increased in America since the coming of Prohibition, and it would not surprise us to learn that such drug-parties as those described are by no means uncommon among persons for whom there is an added attraction about that which is forbidden. It is becoming observable among ourselves. Frenchmen, who because they have always had free access to wine are not tempted to excessive consumption, are daily astonished at the drinking that goes on in Paris among American and English visitors. They see in them something not unlike the eagerness and excitement of schoolboys loosed from pedagogic restraint.