Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mumps, of all things, knocking out the original castee--of doubling in the lealing role of army-bound Ernest Hughman. Fred Graves, who appears as August, the Hughman rejected by the army, bears an incarnal resemblance to Eddie Dowling, who has often appeared in Saroyan plays. The inevitable Saroyan drunk is combined with the familiar and equally all-knowing, only partly-articulate Saroyan immigrant in the person of Casimir the Hungarian, who is splendidly portrayed by Constantine Pappas. The supporting cast has its rough spots, but Saroyan is Saroyan is Saroyan...
Liquor shortages do not faze Arpad. New Year's Eve he will get tiddledy-boo drunk again. His nephew, Gabe, will have to pick up the pieces, pack Arpad safely home. It happens every year...
Before long the girl-shy Whirlwind, drunk with love, is as friskily unmanageable as a brontosaurus in a bridal suite. (Good scene: his Dionysian rumba with exhausted Miss Russell in her apartment, to ear-cleaving radio music, deep in the night.) Meanwhile the Honest Man (Brian Aherne), who is writing Miss Russell's profile, loafs around with his hat jammed on (to prove he is a journalist), befriends the bemused Whirlwind, sneers at double-dealing Miss Russell, grabs her the instant she betrays a dawning sense of decency...
...groggy from answering letters (you have an army of boxing fans among your readers) from people who think I'm punch drunk from so many years in The Ring...
...deadlines were set, the declarations signed, the toasts drunk. Then the President reported to the U.S. people's true ambassadors to Teheran-the American soldiers...