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 #:
000236
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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232 SODOM AND GOMORRAH and pictures for almost fifteen years now, and every year they grow worse. Meanwhile Mr. Hays is paid more money, having started with a modest stipend of only $2000 a week. There is, however, a reason for this, and it is not morals — unless it be a lack of them. Mr. Hays is a power in the Republican Party, being even a greater Republican than Mr. Louis B. Mayer. Until 1933 when Mr. Roosevelt grasped the reins of power, the Republicans had governed in Washington. Inasmuch as a little word to this right person and a little word to that right person may avoid such a calamity as a Federal investigation, or, what would be infinitely worse, a Federal censorship of motion pictures, what could be better than to have as the head of Motion Picturedom a respectable Presbyterian elder and former National Chairman of the Republican Party? Whether Mr. Hays earned his increase by saying the right word to the right person is an unfathomable mystery. However, be it said that not once during the Republican regime lasting more than 12 years was Hollywood ever investigated, despite all the financial and moral scandals. The Republicans no longer hold sway in Washington, but Mr. Hays does in pictures, for is he not still a respectable Presbyterian elder? And, in his opinion, he still qualifies for his $200,000 a