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 #:
000102
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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98 SODOM AND GOMORRAH Because of her youth, her parents insisted that a guardian accompany her, and the film representative in Washington got some woman to play this role. For "play" it was all she did, as the girl was seduced in a St. Louis hotel room by the estimable producer's representative under the very eyes of the "guardian." When this gallant gentleman finished with her, he passed her about to his friends until she hadn't a shred of decent reputation left. Then, the film studio would have nothing to do with her, their pretext being that they had no use for anybody so immoral. At certain times the studios can be very severe moralists, expediency serving as occasion for such conscientiousness. The final act of this tragedy has its locale on the border of Mexico where the United States officials caught a couple of white slave peddlers smuggling this girl across the border. When investigated, it finally came to light that the destination of the gang was a house of ill-fame in Tia Juana. It seems that the girl, failing to get a job, sank lower and lower, and finally, deserted by her paramours, she became a commercial prostitute. The authorities got in touch with her mother, who, when she heard the sordid story and saw her daughter, fainted from the shock. She refused to believe that the human wreck before her was her child.