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 #:
000157
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 AND GOMORRAH 153 Right here, Mr. and Mrs. Movie Fan, T want to confess that I was just a little bit afraid to keep my appointment, for the day was so fright fully hot that I feared I could not stand both thr weather and the torrid beauty with whom I was privileged to spend the day. Hut I was ridden by duty, that stern, inexorable master who allows not his servants to shirk. And I, Mr. and Mrs Movie Fan, had a duty that would permit no faltering. My duty was to that great, vast, magnifi cent public and to that little wisp of humanity, so small in stature but so great an artist. Clara Bow! I was ordained to bring to my stupendous public the real truth about Elinor Glyn's famous "It" girl. Not the truth as told by Daisy De Voe, that cruel, cunning, heartless serpent who hid in the recesses of Clara's great, kind heart, only to strike her benefactor in the latter's weakest moment, when the star's health was failing and she needed every precious ounce of human kindness and friendly assistance to carry on, and who almost, but not quite, destroyed that great soul known to the world as Clara Bow. the unmatched "It" girl. Nor, my dear, dear readers, the "truth" as told bv the indifferent press men, men whose only aim was to get sensational news for their papers, no matter if in doing so they wrecked the life of a defenseless victim, a victim who had manv times given them of her store of human kindness I had the burden of bringing the real truth to the public