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 #:
000168
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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164 SODOM AND GOMORRAH reflect "the unusual intelligence of their owner/' In this particular article Joan is a happy, happy girl. Her first ambition, as she describes it, is "to go on and on with this wonderful art" — referring to motion pictures. The development of her great talent gives her boundless joy. She shares the credit for her happy existence, however, with Mr. O. O. Mclntyre, whose articles she professes to clip daily from the paper and paste in her scrap book. She enjoys Mr. Mclntyre so much because his writings "express such a gentle philosophy." It really does one's heart good to see Joan so happy in this lovely description of her life, for the picture painted in the previous article was dark and somber. That extraordinary feature quoted Miss Crawford as suffering from a general misunderstanding involving the entire public. Miss Crawford was, it would seem, almost on the verge of suicide from worrying about wicked words of the scandal mongers. She claims that she "strove for higher things, only to be laughed at by those who posed as her friends." The article, conforming to pattern, sought to arouse the reader's sympathy for poor, misunderstood Joan by saying that she is so very sensitive that every thoughtless word or deed cuts her like the slash of a great knife. Hence the poor girl must be terribly disfigured by now. Were it not for her art, she would disdain to live longer. As for