Constantly writer after writer would come to me in Hollywood to invite me into Communist activities and I would laugh at them and point out the utter inconsistency of a man making fifteen hundred dollars a week or more, doing next to nothing, going for a philosophy which would destroy just that and put them back where they were when the golden cornucopia splayed them.
Jack Woodford (1894 – 1971) was a successful American pulp novelist and non-fiction writer of the 1930s and 1940s. He had a brief stint in Hollywood, and wrote about his literary adventures in his 1962 autobiography.
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