From Prater Violet, 1945, about Hollywood,

"There one sees what Shakespeare saw. The absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers. There aer fantastically beautiful women, there are incompetent favorites...." and so on and so forth. Only the women are not comely today since they must appeal to the masses; they look like pizza waitresses dressed up in costumes.