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William Saroyan's Talking to You is a play of no special merit, but excellent acting and direction make up for the playwright's vapidness. An exuberant, brilliantly unaffected performance by Mel Hopson leads the work of a fine cast, ably directed by David Wheeler...
...wishes he were "better dreamed," and Fancy Dan, an embittered ex-convict, take their knocks with less dignity. "A little love somewhere is better," counsels Saroyan; "too much hate melts the bones, makes me cry." His scandalized commentary serves passably as a vehicle for the dramatic skills of Hopson, Jerome Raphael, Lazaro Perez, and John Karlen, if it does little else...
Bruin Clark Hopson throws the discus 144 ft, which, translated, means front-liner battling for second place with Harvard underlings. Chris Pardee, who high jumped 6 ft., 9 in. indoors won't be pressed for first place in that event. Teammate Jack Spitzberg and Bruin Dean Pinelius will both be striving for a 6 ft., 2 in. leapz which should be good for second place...
...ELTON J. HOPSON...
Died. Howard Colwell Hopson, 67, nimble promoter who pyramided 'the Associated Gas & Electric System into a billion-dollar holding-company empire that collapsed in the '30's; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Greenwich, Conn. Charged with using the mails to defraud, Hopson could account for such expenditures as a 10? bone for an unidentified dog, but not for $20 million swindled from stockholders. Jailed on a five-year sentence in 1941, he was released in 1944 to live out his life in a mental sanitarium...