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 #:
000118
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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114 SODOM AND GOMORRAH thought she was contributing something artistic for future ages. Moreover, this same star owes her rise in films to her faculty for forgetting conventional law in her relations with a certain executive of her studio. She, like many of her sisters, discovered that virtue is not always practical. In her business there is one sure way to get ahead, and she steadfastly pursued it, and not without success. Another very popular star, police investigators have discovered, although married is the mistress of the head of a huge Los Angeles dope ring. Giving her every benefit of the doubt, she may notknow her dangerous lover is a narcotic peddler, but surely she must know that she herself is married, and that adultery is not countenanced by society. But possibly she has been in films so long that she believes true and beautiful love, even with a gangster, transcends all moral bounds. She will have another thought coming when her lover is sent to a federal penitentiary. One more significant fact for those who trust the motion picture industry to reform itself from within is the statement of an executive of a New York life insurance company to the effect that fifteen Hollywood picture officials were turned down by his company because they had police records. At one of the Hollywood "church" parties not long ago a guest impersonated a police officer and demanded that the others submit to