Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

SODOM AND GOMORRAH 161 ingless descriptions and irrelevant platitudes, The remaining material was devoted to quoting Clara on many subjects, her views being supplemented and flattered by the author. Then she was white-washed, and made to appear a victim — here is where the tragedy comes in — of the scandal mongers. This sympathy-amusing stunt is pulled in almost every screen article. Of course the tale contains the usual description of the star's appearance, an indispensable factor to every . story. Besides a few other very trit* details there is nothing else in this eighteen-hundred word story. Of course there is no real tragedy. The entire article is simply a jungle of dull verbiage. But when one remembers that the real facts which occurred during the author's interviewwere even duller than this story, one has to give the author credit for some imagination. The celebrities about whom these articles are written never object even when they are represented as saying things they would never dream oi saying. They understand all too well how vitally important it is that their names be kept before the public eye. no matter what is said of them. Some are even tl altered when quoted in philosophical and otherwise brillian ments, statements that they never made. A feature article, illy one demanding sympathy for the star's trials and tribulations, always results in