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 #:
000103
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
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SODOM A N D G O M O R R AIT 00 The culprits would have been :ted. as they richly deserved, except thai the father ■ a public official who feared the scai were the tans to become public, the gfirl would be shunned by her Washington friends and acquaint ances, who of course know nothii at her past. It is difficult to >e like this. But sometimes the unusual ha; \ case coming up for retrial in Los Angeles now, will convince the most skeptical that Hollywood is guilty of more than one such case as we have previously described. A few months ago the following si >ry appeared on the front page of the Evening Post : "The sordid stor) of a Holl) xtra girl wh< d moral compromise as the price of a job in the movies was bared today in a transcript of tin tartling testimony before the county grand jury. "The testimony, shocking in tails of purported Hollywood parties ven before the -rand jury which recently indicted Dave Allen, manager of the I sting Bureau in lloli and Gloria Marsh, him actress, on moral charges. "Both Allen and irsh denied the ch • irl. "The witness was a pretty girl who came here three y< the hopes that ntually o :< >nu an act p. [RL'S CH VRGE ;irl char:, "That Allen promised her work if she would submit to certain demands and that later she was persuaded by the casting executive to invite other extra girls to the alleged orgies in her apartment.