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...Douglas Spaulding wakes up in his cupola bedroom, high above his grandparents' house in "Green Town," the author's own Waukegan, Ill. The boy knows his duty: to wake the town. Silently, he commands, " 'Everyone yawn. Everyone up.' The great house stirred below. 'Grandpa, get your teeth from the water glass!' He waited a decent interval. 'Grandma and Great Grandma, fry hot cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough...
...back-to-the-land rhetoric--sprang up in the late nineteenth century to challenge the growing capitalism which was to destroy its social powers. The Communist movement in politics and culture in the 1930's depression days tried to integrate this American remembrance with a future-oriented Marxism consider Grandpa Joad's line in The Grapes of Wrath "I' m stickin' with my farm until Idie"), and Woody Guthrie's "Roll On Columbia." In which he applauds "Tom Jefferson's vision" which "could not let him rest"--that vision being the endless expansion of American farmland westward...
That may be changing. Since September 1972, a 25-year-old Hearst grandson and the family's current power broker at the Examiner, "Willie" III, has revived some of the old spirit and innovative kick of grandpa. He has successfully pushed the nondescript Examiner into making its most striking changes in decades, including a new six-column page format (which may make its debut this month), a reduced page size to save money, more minority reporters, and expanded investigative and news coverage...
Rolls-Royce dealers say that sales are rolling as high as ever. Says a Park Avenue millionaire: "Today's inheritors of big money have a totally different attitude from their grandfathers. Grandpa tightened his belt temporarily during lean times because he perceived the System as basically stable. Today the wealthy are preparing for revolution or Communism or whatever, and want to use the cash while it will still buy something. The more they speak poor, the more they are spending rich." The scion, who has homes in Manhattan and Bermuda, is shopping for a new yacht...
...eritire cast has a romp with this show, especially Walter Abel, 76, as a foxy, crusty grandpa. The various Italian accents are an unintentional joke, but no matter. Saturday, Sunday, Monday has the look and feel of a show that will elude critical quibbles and find a large, satisfied audience. T.E. Kalem