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 #:
000119
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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SODOM AND GOMORRAH 115 having their finger prints taken \ certain very powerful film executive Bed in terror, All tin who know about the incident are still wondering why. From these things it can -n that the reformers might just as well expect Alphonse Capone to sponsor a campaign against illegal profits as expect motion picture executives to reform their industry. I lolly wood's one stock argument against accusations of loose morals i> that there arc similar cases in other cities. To begin with, that argument is a.s shallow as most of the film capital's other points, as though a Chicago gangster were to justify his violent acts on the pretext that gangsters in other cities do the same thing, it you are shot by a gangster in one city, you ought not to mind, for someone might be shot by a gangster in another city, which evens everything. However, granting that some people in other localities and in other lines of work than pictures do commit some, or all, of the disgusting crimes against moral and conventional law that are per petrated in Hollywood, at least most of this alleged immorality is divorced from the various husiness institutions with which the non-cinema sinners are associated. It is not so much what the Hollywood celebrities choose to do as their private diversion that merits censure, but that the standards of a great wielding a more subtle influence than the press, should be lowered