Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

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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 #:
000130
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:
August 22, 2024
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126 SODOM AND GOMORRAH glamour about a girl whose aunt is a Russian Princess, and so Miss Romensk is launched on her screen career. After the release of her first picture her fan mail may be some fourteen letters a week, which an industrious press agent makes more impressive by the addition of two ciphers. The studio publicity department announces that fourteen hundred letters a week puts fan mail at a new high. Mental suggestion is a wonderful thing. When good American citizens read that their countrymen have been writing fan letters at the rate of one and a third thousands a week to a glamorous princess, whose family was killed by those damned Bolsheviki, fourteen hundred more immediately sit down and write too. The press agent, regarding philosophically this phenomenon as his own work, doubles the number in his report to the papers. The publicity department then issues a statement declaring that Miss Romensk's popularity is germinating a panic in the studio post office because of the huge amount of fan mail. Several clerks are added. Then there is the little item of salary. Miss Romensk is working for three hundred dollars a week, which seemed like a fortune when she was only Hilda Guldenbach. But a Russian Princess has considerable expense, so after a violent quarrel, which the publicity department carries to every nook and cranny of the globe, it is