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...some new Saroyan shenanigans. A brand-new, self-consciously indigenous, highly touted and talented group who call themselves the Ballet Theatre staged the world premiere of a Saroyan innovation. Its title was a phrase for which anti-Saroyans have long groped to describe William Saroyan himself: The Great American Goof. The author of My Heart's in the Highlands, The Time of Your Life, Inhale & Exhale (short stories), called his experiment a "balletplay." It used music (composed by Henry Brant), dancing (choregraphed by Eugene Loring), dialogue (Saroyan's), and exquisite, dreamy sets consisting of stereopticon shadows cast...
...Mickey Mouse, not the foolish pigs, not Donald Duck in a snit, not the awkward Goof nor Horace the hopeless horse, not Dopey, no wide-eyed, tender creature of the field or wood was chosen. The choice: a scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wherein two cadaverous vultures-black, grey, just a tip of vermilion on their cruel beaks-watch for the witch's death through sleet and gloom. Taken from their delicate context, the ominous birds seemed to be looking down on Europe...
That W. E. goof isn't looking at them anyway. He's asleep and his book has just dropped to the floor. It's called "Psychoanalysis and Medicine." Poor fool...
Mickey Mouse, the Big Bad Wolf, the Horse-Goof, and Donald Duck have a most sensational polo game with Chico Marx, Charles Chaplin, and Laurel and Hardy. Fox Movietone News appears again with its many neat categories, and at 12:30 every day there is to be heard Tachaikowsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ("Symphony Pathetique...
...with a stock remarkably like that of "Dr." Pearce. He had Tie Down Goods instead of Tie-Them-Down and King Solomon's Marrow instead of King Solomon's Wisdom Stone. He also had some additional merchandise: Boss Fix Powders (to keep employers well disposed) Guffer (or Goof-er) Dust, Happy Dust, Easy Life Powder and Buzzard Nest...