Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang Kai-shek is fighting a war and he has less interest than Mr. Chamberlain in long-range economic ideas about China. The Generalissimo flatly told Ambassador Sir Archibald that the loss of Canton was attributable to China's misplaced confidence in Britain...
...Odets personality of those days became a legend. Samples of it were "collected"' like Dorothy Parker's witticisms and Samuel Goldwyn's boners. Example: playing Mozart on the gramophone for a friend. Odets remarked: "Mozart was a young genius, too." Odets no longer has the same interest in gadding about, hooking up with celebrities, asserting his importance. Today most of his close friends are members of the Group. Most of his spare time is spent at home-playing the gramophone. His love for music is ebullient, a little showy. "A good composer was lost," he once said...
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...
...theatre around him does not interest Odets much. He goes to about three shows a year. He has stopped reading all playwrights but Shakespeare and Ibsen: "I have nothing to learn from American plays any more." Acting he calls "a whorish thing." But now & then he would like a good part in someone else's play, simply to retain his feel of the stage...
Genial General Robert E. Wood explained Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s similar plan. Its employe fund now holds $42,600,000 worth of securities, all Sears, Roebuck stock, making the employe fund the largest single interest in the company...