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 #:
000163
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 Suddenly she drew close to me A fearful expression transfigured the features of that incom parable face. "Do you know." she said in a trembling voice, as though afraid some unseen force lay back in the shadows ready to tear her away from her darling husband, "that if Rex had not rescued me when he did, just at that momeir. I would not be alive today"'*' I shuddered. I could not think of the world without Clara Bow. Certainly I could not think of a Hollywood deprived of its glorious "It" g Poor, poor, Clara! Her escape had been so terrifyingly close, outdoing in dramatic force anything she had ever portrayed on tl n. The sun was setting in a golden blaze, like the crowning glory of America's "It" girl, although her hair was unkempt from the rough ranch lift'. Clara glanced at her tiny diamond wrist-watch — a present from Rex — and jumped up. "My husband will be here any minute, and I haven't even started his supper." Just like Clara — always thinking oi her husband, never of herself. I thought of her at that moment not as a great dramatic actress, not as an immortal Duse, but as a typical American woman whose Uthought was of her husband's supper. As I drove home in the twilight, the Bell ranch disappearing in the distance behind me, I thought of that vast public waiting to hear the true story of Clara Bow's life, the story of her great, untold