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...Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...
Bouncing Grandpa. Who is Zorba? He is Everyman with a Greek accent. He is Sinbad crossed with Sancho Panza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years in the Mediterranean sun have neither dimmed his hawk eyes nor dulled his pagan laughter. From the moment when he pounces on the nameless narrator of the story with an abrupt offer-"Taking me with you? ... I can make soups you've never heard or thought of"-Zorba makes the heroes of most modern fiction seem like dyspeptic ghosts...
...Flood. After such a quiet play, Wilder's rambunctious The Skin of Our Teeth proved to be a jolt-so much so that some 75 backers promptly backed away. It was a sort of Hellzapoppin with brains, the story of Everyman (Mr. Antrobus) and the whole human race. Its action spread over 5,000 years, took in the Flood, the Ice Age and Armageddon. "Our Town" says Wilder, "is the life of the family seen from a telescope five miles away. The Skin of Our Teeth is the destiny of the whole human group seen from a telescope...
...Everyman's Entertainment. Burly, 33-year-old Hal Roach Jr., who got his start as an assistant director of Our Gang comedies ("I unbuttoned and buttoned their pants between scenes"), has been in command of the studio since he took over the production reins from his father in 1948. He accounts for his new success with the explanation that televiewers have even lower I.Q.s than moviegoers: "On TV, a character must be immediately self-explanatory-that's why a guy like William Bendix will be great. I'm sure The Birth of a Baby, which made...
...live" producers of the East Coast don't speak Everyman's language with Roach's facility. He discovered this on a recent trip to Manhattan, when some TV-men tried to sell him on the idea of an hour-long ballet show. Says Roach: "I just told them ballet is not mass entertainment and most likely never will be." His credo: "You can't rationalize the public's taste. It isn't a question of intellectuality. It's the same thing as the public liking football and baseball and not liking polo...