Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy, blinking before a Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa...
...single flaw marred Odets' defense of his play. Whatever people might have been saying behind fans, only one Broadway critic had said any of the things about Rocket to the Moon that Odets was defending himself against...
...only brash, Johnny-jump-up William Saroyan hastens more incontinently to answer his critics than Playwright Clifford Odets. Last week, after the opening of his new play about love, Rocket to the Moon, Odets punctually tore into print...
...Some of the points that are being made about Rocket to the Moon," said Odets, "were made in precisely the same way about Golden Boy at first. Critics complained that the subject was so well known: —Why do it again...
...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...