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 #:
000181
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 177 the banker, while he is even less welcome than the Almighty, gets inside the studio offices a great deal more often One ha frequently read joke about inaco bility of motion picture people, hut there is noth ing made up about these quips. So much a fact is i4 that the sometimes witty columnist of the Los Angeles Times, Harry Carr, in writing of King Albert of Belgium, said that it was much monarch than any stuffed shirt in a Hollywood picture studio Harry Carr. incidentally, spoke from experience. Is it not a tragically absurd situation wherein it is easier to obtain an audience with the ruler ot a nation than an interview with a petty executive of a business rporation, and who. in theory at least, is nothing more than a servant of the stockholders"' The theory of royalty, accepted by so many Europeans, a< well as Americans, is that in some unmentionable way a monarch and his family are better than non-royal people. Quite testimonial it is then the bloated Hollywood heads when a monarch real royal blood — Hollywood saturated with bluff royalty and bluff aristocracy, as well as bluff acting ability that it is necessary to stress the "real" — made himself as accessibU those beneath him. whilt i< film industry, whose work proDably occupies halt hour of their time everv day. will condescend to