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...about five years ago a Broadway producer, tired of rejecting Goldsmith's plays, told him for goodness' sake to write a play about something he knew about. He canvassed himself and wrote What A Life (TIME, April 25, 1938), a play about an adolescent named Henry Aldrich. It went over, became a movie, and is still playing the little theaters...
Rudy Vallee asked for a radio skit, and Goldsmith obliged. Says he: "It was horrible, but they asked for more." The Bleeding Present. Goldsmith turns it out in an old milkhouse on his farm in Chester County, Pa. Enraptured Aldrich fans send him their childhood anecdotes, and he has a first-rate supply of source material in his three sons, aged...
Whenever he incorporates one of their misadventures in a script he is likely to find an itemized bill by his bedside for "plagerism." It is strictly understood at the Goldsmiths' that The Aldrich Family is never to be mentioned at meals...
Discus throw--Won by Aldrich (R.I.), 137 ft., 6 1/4 in.; second, Fisher (H), 118 ft., 8 5/8 in; third, Howard...
Shot put--Won by Aldrich (R.I.), 43 ft., 9 in.; second, Marrison (R.I.) 36 ft.; third. Fine...