Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
00090
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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86 SODOM AND GOMORRAH However, the player is not the only sinner in Hollywood, nor is he the greatest. The whole tribe, except many in the lower pay brackets who cannot afford to pamper their vices, maintain a loose moral standard, to put it conservatively, with the proverbial exception to every rule. Only recently a film magazine has published an article on the innocent Hollywood parties. According to this feature, the average party attended by film celebrities compares favorably with any Sunday School picnic. Yet for all this innocence, it is a fact that some ninety per cent of all the property damage suits brought by the realty owners of the better class apartment houses in Los Angeles are against film people. It is an accepted fact among the real estate owners that motion picture people are the worst class of tenants. Several months ago a Los Angeles court ordered a film comedian to pay damages amounting to more than four hundred dollars done to the interior of an apartment which he had occupied only two months. It is quite startling to reflect that in only sixty days time a guest could ruin an apartment to the extent of four hundred dollars. It must have been the church parties ! At least once every month one reads in the papers of similar cases. A Los Angeles daily during July carried a story running in the same vein as the above.