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 #:
000182
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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178 SODOM AND GOMORRAH see no one except those whose business or social connections are greater than their own. With their tremendous salaries, it is not hard to understand how the stockholders' servants maintain the outward trapping of that glory and power they so love to affect. They have limousines. Hollywood palaces, yachts, beach homes, mountain residences, desert ranches, gay parties, and all the other paraphernalia needed to maintain their delusions of grandeur. Inside their Moorish castles on the top of some Beverly Hills cliff, they can look down on those in the valley and imagine themselves feudal lords. Or, if their fancy dictates, by establishing a few beautiful women in luxurious apartments about town, they can convince themselves that they are Turkish sultans. Autocrats in their studios, if they have vivid imaginations, perhaps each can picture himself as a "Soleil-Roi" that would make the original Louis shrink with shame. Without doubt certain picture executives consider themselves the Napoleons of drama or, perhaps, Mussolinis. (They do not like Hitler.) Of course some of the recipients of the fabulous screen salaries persuade themselves that they are connoisseurs of art, and go about Europe paying outrageous prices for paintings and antiques, most of which are not genuine, and which they couldn't and wouldn't appreciate if they were. However, they are not cheated so badly as one