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 #:
000203
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:
March 28, 2024
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SODOM AND GOMORRAH I9V The amusing part of the whole thing is that the extras are the only ones who can still cash rubber checks or induce landlords to trust them another month on the rent. That they do is obvious in the twenty thousand who are getting by in life with nothing more substantial than hope. The great majority of these people live in at least moderately wellfurnished apartments, dress well, have plenty of liquor, and an unbelievably large number even drive an automobile. With no more capital or income than the inhabitants of the slum districts, the extras live in a setting of middleclass luxury amid the beautiful Hollywood hills. But this sort of existence, that is, getting much for nothing, is nerve-racking in the extreme. And it can be accomplished on a large scale only in Hollywood. It is done by a sort of financial wizardry that might well arouse the jealousy of Wall Street. For instance, the average person would be likely tu see quite a problem in renting a nice apartment on an income of sixteen or twenty dollars a month. But it bothers not the Hollywood extra, for is not necessity the mother of invention? Here again, moreover, environment plays an im portant part in the development of institution* Like almost everything else in Southern California, there is an excess of apartment house* Almost every other building in the city of L Angeles is such a residence. Competition is keen