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 #:
000208
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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204 SODOM AND GOMORRAH Another group, and this one is amazingly large, is composed of those who play prostitute to help eke out an existence. Most of these fare less well than a professional harlot, getting only an occasional meal and drink for their favors. However, there are a few smart gold-diggers who manage to get something worthwhile for their trouble. These are the ones who live in splendid apartments with the rent paid, who drive big cars, and who dress as well as any woman in Los Angeles, all on a few days of extra work a month. It is this type mostly who supply the few exceptions in which an extra player rises from the ranks to stardom. It can be readily seen that the economic set-up of the extra players is hardly conducive to good morals. As a matter of fact, the morals of the group as a whole are astonishingly fine when compared with those of the few who fare better from the industry. Nevertheless, they are atrocious. Sociologists explain that prostitution, for the most part, is the symbol of an economic disease. What is to be expected, then, of thousands of the most beautiful girls in the world living in a state of semi-starvation. Naturally a huge number of men take advantage of this situation, and sex-, ual license and degradation are the results. Nowhere in the world, except perhaps in the worst districts of Paris and Constantinople, can