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 #:
00092
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

83 SODOM AND GOMORRAH people have methods by which they solve the difficulty. Every year throughout the country there are many beauty contests sponsored by various business concerns in conjunction with the studios in Hollywood. The winner, always a beautiful, ambitious girl, is given a ticket to Los Angeles by the local business firm, and the studio is pledged, supposedly, anyway, to give the youngster a tryout in pictures. This, however, rarely works out as expected. The girl arrives in Hollywood with very little money, expecting to be given a job in the films as she has been led to believe was part of her prize. Instead, she frequently finds that she cannot even gain admission to a studio, much less obtain a part in some picture. Or, if she happens to be a little fortunate, she may get an interview with some executive, but that is of no practical value. Outside of a few vague promises and a pleasant (?) chat, her time has been wasted. She gets into a desperate state financially. The chances are that she has no money to stay or no money to leave. About this stage of the comedy, or tragedy as is more likely the case, some fellow connected with the films begins to pay her his attentions. It seems almost providential. Just when she needs some studio notice the worst kind of way, here comes a gentleman actually associated with the studio wanting (?) to help her. Naturally she receives his attentions, delighted