Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then he has written a flop-Paradise Lost; a popular success that Hollywood paid $75,000 for-Golden Boy. Critics have spanked him. The public has often been exasperated and puzzled. But his position remains unchallenged. Critics, after filing their complaints, hastily add that Odets is his country's most promising playwright. Waiting for Lefty has circled the globe. Odets is still the White Hope, still Art, still News...
...there at $2,500 a 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...
Fame & Fortune. Tall, husky, wearing expensive sloppy clothes, living in a Manhattan penthouse, fussed over by a devoted male secretary. Odets clearly enjoys his success. In the first golden days when he was hoisted into fame, he got a great kick from going to parties, being seen out with Beatrice Lillie and Tallulah Bankhead, weekending with Helen Hayes and her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
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...
...collection of money made in connection with the meeting without consent first obtained in writing from the office of the Corporation." Certainly the Corporation should give this consent to facilitate the collection of funds in a cause to which the Corporation itself has given its implied blessing. Otherwise a golden opportunity will be lost and the Undergraduate Committee hampered in raising funds to make the Corporation's own scholarships effective...