Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

SODOM AND GOMORRAH 135 actors always move Sel ' out of their track. When they do, the r nearly always pitiful. They can give a convincing pet formance in only one line. \ stereotype is created by giving the pi; roles that constantly conform to his physical characteristics, just as Victor McLaglen alw plays the strong-but-dumb type and Edmund Lowe tlu weaker-bul r in their team. They simply could not play it any other way. Th pictures are a1wa\ inn thing with different settings and new titles. The physical character istic ark Gable arc such as to make him the perfect type to play Don Juan roles in which he keeps your wife company while yon are on your vacation. The publicity department takes each player in hand and creates and sustains each releasing stories and pn that will d velop the desired illusions in the mind of the public. Every Gable-struck girl knows that Clark has led a life of adventure in lumber camps, in mining camps, in tent shows, and in love, all of which hear out his "manlim It" it is a woman who is being s yped, the glamour edifice carefully constructed, and thereafter everything the <tar says or d orted for the bent her fans in such a wax as to make word and deed absolutely consistent with The part she plays on the screen. Pictures are not art. They are