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Odets' Career as Playwright, Anti-Semitic
Trends in His Time, Defined in Biography

Clifford Odets was the
name that dominated in the
theater. He was a leader
among the playwrights. His
dramatic works continued
as an influence interpreting
the social problems and
they had their influence on
the political confrontations
of the 1930s.
In "Clifford Odets,
American Playwright: The
Years From 1906 to 1940"
(Atheneum), Margaret
Brenman-Gibson covers the
vast field of the dramatist's
experiences. It is an im-
mense work of more than
700 pages in which the
author traced the events
which influenced Odets.
Presently a research
associate and visiting pro-
fessor at the department of
psychiatry of the Harvard
Medical School, Dr.
Brenman-Gibson, as an
eminent psychologist took
into account the sen-
sibilities of the eminent
playwright. Additionally,
she emerges also as an his-
torian of the period under
review.
Prof. Brenman-Gibson
takes into account the ef-
fects of the Nazi era on
Odets. The reactions to
the cruelties are in evi-

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Jerome Blum were out- where he applied at once °
dence. "Clash by Night"
for citizenship and soon
(1942) gave evidence of raged. -
"One of the earliest to became a staunch ad-'
the bitterness which
seek help was the poet- mirer of Odets' Waiting
marked Odets' expose.
The social problems playwright Bertolt Brecht, for Lefty.'
a Gentile who left Germany
covered in his plays, "Wait-
"In September 1947 he
ing for Lefty," "Paradise for Denmark the day after would be interrogated by
Lost," "Golden Boy," and Hermann Goering's the House Committee on
the score of others evi- Reichstag fire, contrived by Un-American Activities. In
denced the effects of his Hitler to seem the work of 1948 he left for East Berlin,
family life, the immigrant left-wing intellectuals and where he died in 1956."
background, the related Jews, the prime dissenters
Hounded by the Congres-
themes which resulted in in Germany.
"Brecht told Lee Stras- sional Un-American Activi-
character studies that ele-
vated the playwright to berg he had been among the ties Committee, subjecj-,- 'to
first seven of Hitler's many challenges, the
high esteem.
There were also the rela- `wanted men.' Millions of of Odets is under scrutiny in
tionships with other playw- them, less far-sighted or this thorough account of his— <,
rights, with the prize- perhaps less mobile than life and works. Dr.
winners of his time in liter- Brecht, would shortly van- Brenman-Gibson's follow- )
up volume on Odets has al-
ature and in social studies. ish in smoke.
"Brecht, forced to run ready created a demand to
It has been said that
many of the Nobel Prize just ahead of the German share in further studies of
winners in literature were army, would live briefly the eminent playwright
bigoted, that some were in Sweden and in Fin- who has left an impressive
anti-Semites. There is, for land, finally landing in mark on the theater and its
example, this comment by 1941 in the United States, products.
Dr. Brenman-Gibson: "In
each country there were
dissenters to prevailing
The Arab-American benthal's statement in Sep-
solutions. In the United
States there were, on the Anti-Discrimination Com- tember 1980 calling the
right, those who, in com- mittee (ADC) has charged Arab group a "mouthpieces
munion with Hitler, began the Anti-Defamation for the PLO" because of its
to refer to 'Rosenfeld, the League of Bnai Brith, and defense of accused terrorist
Jew, the Red in the White _specifically Michigan Ziad Abu-Eain. Abu-Eain
House.' " To this is attached Regional Director Richard fought extradition from the
Lobenthal, with conducting U.S. to Israel for 21/2 years.
this footnote:
Recently a U.S. court in -‘
"The complex Theo- a "campaign of defama-
Chicago ruled that he
dore Dreiser, for exam- tion."
The claim grew out of Lo- must be extradited to
ple, in impotent negotia-
face charges of planting a
tion about a 'picture idea' Racist Remark
bomb in Tiberias in 1979
for Mae West with Hol-
that killed two children
lywood film magnates — Attributed to
and injured 36 persons.
many of them Jewish — CBS's Wallace
During the opening of
had begun to express his
NEW YORK — CBS news court proceedings in Is-
private conviction that
Jews should be deported. correspondent Mike Wal- rael this week Abu-Eain
`The world's quarrel with lace made a racially dis- pleaded not guilty.
An ADC spokesman in
the Jew,' he said, 'is not paraging remark during a
that he is inferior, but recent interview with a San Detroit challenged Lobent-
Diego bank official, accord- hal to a debate on radio or
that he is superior.'
"In public — together ing to the Los Angeles television. Lobenthal re-
fused the debate, saying he
with his fellow American Times.
The remark, videotaped stood by his remarks and
Spectator editors Sherwood
Anderson, Ernest Boyd, by bank officials without said he would not be part of
James Branch Cabell, Wallace's knowledge, con- "a ploy for the ADC to voice
George Jean Nathan and cerned low-income, poorly their propaganda."
Eugene O'Neill — he pub- educated Southern Califor-
lished in September of 1933 nians who faced losing their
a mythical 'Editorial Con- homes because they had
ference (With Wine),' sup- unknowingly signed
posedly a whimsy, on the agreements putting them
subject of the Jews and the up as collateral in contracts
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America.' Nathan belittled from the bank official.
Jewish poetry and music.
O'Neill proposed a home-
land in Africa, while Boyd
suggested giving the Jews
the state of Kansas.
"Dreiser recommended
a handicap for Jews: a
limitation on numbers in
given lines of work. Thus,
`100,000 Jewish lawyers
might be reduced to 10
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and the remainder made
to do farming.'
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