Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father finally told the boy to go ahead and be an actor. Clifford started with amateurs in The Bronx; then joined a cooperative group and earned about $20 a year. He wrote radio plays and went on the air; he worked, like Playwrights Arthur Kober and Moss Hart, in summer camps...
...week, sent back money to keep the play and the Group going. Again, in the summer of 1937. when the Group existed in name only-its leading actors and its one remaining director were all in Hollywood-Odets came through with the script of Golden Boy, and like a Pied Piper led everybody back to Broadway...
Money he need not worry about for years. His Hollywood work brought him $90,000; his royalties plus a 25% interest-shared with his wife-in Golden Boy brought him about $2,000 a week during its seven-month run; the cinema sale means $42,000 more. (He and his wife have a 35% joint interest in Rocket to the Moon.) He looks ahead to writing plays without interruption-has "ten or twelve"' plays already laid out. One, a strike play called The Silent Partner, may be produced by the Group later this season...
Odets defines the general fraud. It is the American dream, the Cinderella formula, the success story (presumably including his own). It is life as expressed in popular songs; it is Boy Meets Girl; it is Every Boy Can End Up in the White House. Hollywood is its chief dispenser. American men are its chief victims. As soon, says Odets, as an American man finds his dream girl has a blemish that wasn't in the song about her, he is through with...
While parents of his schoolmates demanded Chris's exclusion from the school and farmers' wives shook their heads over "that Simpson boy," Chris was taken to the University of Michigan's Neuropsychiatric Institute clinic for four weeks' observation. According to Clarence F. Ramsay, superintendent of the Children's Institute, Chris is typical product of a home where there has been neither parental love nor discipline...