Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [274]
described as heartbreaking: BBTBI.
very good in the parts he got: BBTBI.
he didn’t publicly express it: At least one friend at the time believed that AR preferred O’Connor not to be successful. “If Ayn had wanted him out there [in front of movie audiences], she would have pushed. But I think she wanted him right there, by her side,” said Millicent Patton (taped interview with Millicent Patton, conducted by BB on December 15, 1982).
closed in late November 1934: “‘The Night of January 16th’ Unique Courtroom Drama,” Los Angeles Times, March 2, 1936, p. 17.
“killed his ambition to work as an actor”: AR:SOL, DVD.
“enormous contempt” for the whole movie business: TPOAR, p. 135.
“His downfall was his enormous respect for her”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, January 20, 1983.
“the greatest monument to the potency of man’s mind”: FTNI, p. 49.
translated it into Russian: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
compared the beauty and economy of her language: “Home Atmosphere.”
a sketch of a theater marquee: AR:SOL, p. 71.
“A is A”: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
determined belief in her abilities: “Ayn Rand in Russia.”
FOUR: WE ARE NOT LIKE
OUR BROTHERS: 1934–1938
“Men have been taught”: TF, p. 713.
left Los Angeles in their secondhand Nash: Letter to Jean Wick, November 24, 1934 (LOAR, p. 20).
in Virginia the car hit a pothole: TPOAR, p. 119.
She had already begun to make mental notes: According to JOAR, p. 77, AR made her first actual notes for TF on December 4, 1935. Shoshana Milgram, who has access to the ARI Archives, claims that AR was already working on an outline when she traveled from California to New York (Shoshana Milgram, “The Hero in the Soul Manifested in the World,” a lecture presented at the ARI’s Centenary Conference, New York, April 23, 2005).
The car was wrecked: “The Hero in the Soul, Manifested in the World.”
She also got on well: Letter to Mary Inloes, December 10, 1934 (LOAR, pp. 20–21).
one-room furnished apartment: Harry Binswanger, dinner lecture, ARI Centenary Conference, April 24, 2005; thanks to Fred Cookinham for his notes. In TPOAR, p. 120, BB mistakes the address as being on East Sixty-fifth Street.
Woods informed her that the play would not open: TPOAR, p. 120.
she needed money: Letter to Mary Inloes, March 16, 1935 (LOAR, pp. 21–22).
cash advance against the play’s New York box office: “Contract with A. H. Woods, Ltd.,” November 14, 1934 (A. Watkins Collection, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, New York, box 80).
complained in a letter to Mary Inloes: Letter to Mary Inloes, March 16, 1935 (LOAR, pp. 21–22).
“It was just a matter of what she had to do”: Taped interview with Millicent Patton, conducted by BB, December 5, 1982.
literary agent, a woman named Jean Wick: Letter to Jean Wick, July 19, 1934 (LOAR, p. 12).
“the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Soviet Russia”: Letter to Jean Wick, October 27, 1934 (LOAR, p. 19).
warned that its anti-Communist message might hurt it: Letter to Jean Wick, June 19, 1934 (LOAR, p. 10). “The literary set also turned against H. L. Mencken … because of his opposition to the New Deal” (from Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “Biography of Henry Hazlitt,” http://www.mises.org).
disbelief and indignation: BBTBI; JMB, a friend of AR’s from the early 1950s until the 1970s, told Jeff Walker, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter, “She had such a glamorous view of America as a child and as a young person in Russia that she was genuinely horrified that there were such things as liberals and socialists; she couldn’t believe that it was true of this country at first, and then of course she came to believe that there was little else” (from taped, unpublished interviews by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, titled Ideas: The Legacy of Ayn Rand, 1992).
couldn’t be more than a handful of Communists: BBTBI.
Americans would “scream with horror”: Letter to Jean Wick, October 27, 1934 (LOAR, p. 18).
first vote as a U.S. citizen: TPOAR, p. 158.
she had been intimate