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...every one of Vag's favorites among the modern dramatists, but poor Vag has been uncomfortable through them all. Brown has waxed witty on Shaw and on Shirley Temple; he has coined (or quoted) sparkling epigrams--the kind that Vag, himself coins (or quotes) in his day-dreams--on Chekhov and on Mrs. Roosevelt. But through it all Vag has sat disconsolate. A smile now and then has crossed his face, but he hasn't laughed outright more than twice...
Five minutes early for the Chekhov lecture, Vag got a choice seat on the floor with his knees doubled up under him. He thought more about Buddha than "The Cherry Orchard" that night. Then he pulled in at a quarter before the hour to hear the one-man debate on Barrie vs. Galsworthy and sat in great discomfort on a window ledge...
...turning Night Music into the same kind of Saroyanesque carnival. Mr. Odets may well find this change of tune a little confusing. But while basking in his brave new world he may also find it worth thinking about that he, who in the past was always being compared to Chekhov, is now being compared to Saroyan...
...dates and titles are: March 7, "lbsen and His Influence;" March 14, "The Perfect Shavian--G.B.S.;" March 21, "Beyond Realism--Chekhov;" March 28, "Barrie vs. Galsworthy;" April 11, "Three English Comic Writers: Wilde, Maugham and Coward;" April 18, "Modern Tragedy--Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell Anderson;" April 25, "The American Theatre Comes of Age--Barry, Kaufman, etc.;" and May 9, "The Drama of Social Significance -- Odets, Saroyan...
William Gerhardi, a polyglot Englishman who was born in Russia, has written novels, short stories, a play, a critical biography of Chekhov. He is perhaps most widely known for his novel The Polyglots. Last week he added to his list a long (484-page), glittering, malicious, at times staggeringly funny history of the Romanov dynasty. Subtitled Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present, it is a profuse record of peculiarly dizzy people in a peculiarly dizzy part of the world...