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Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets, 42, returning to Broadway with a bitter satire on Hollywood (The Big Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...
...week's end, supercharged little Press Editor Louis Seltzer (TIME, Aug. 9) was cited for contempt, and ordered to appear in court this week before his old friend Judge Silbert. So were City Editor Louis Clifford, Reporter Hammer, and the Campbells. For a time it had looked as if the Campbells would have other troubles. Fake or not, Hammer's petition had legally divorced them and efforts to get another marriage license were thwarted by an angry Cleveland judge. Editor Seltzer solved that. He sent them to Angola, Indiana, for a remarriage and second honeymoon-at Press expense...
About ten years ago, Clifford Odets, having apparently written himself out of the Bronx, went to Hollywood. This was a cause for dismay among the people who hailed him as the Golden Boy of the Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance...
...Well now Clifford has come out of the West with a new play called "The Big Knife." With it, he takes some vicious slashes at the guts of his former paymasters. He says nothing new, but he has not lost his touch in saying it in a startling way. Every Odets line has the impact, and sometimes the serewiness, of a tabloid headline. Perhaps his characters aren't real. Perhaps they are. Clifford Odets is real. He is the star of the show...
Change in Climate. Being neither a philosopher nor an economist, practical Harry Truman did not bother to characterize his program in philosophical terms. Actually, the State of the Union message, put together by Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford and polished by Sam Rosenman, old Roosevelt speech-polisher, was a familiar and almost dogged reiteration of virtually everything Harry Truman had been recommending for the past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number...