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...Elizabethan manner and their lines are downright Shakespearean, especially in their tortuous humor. He also uses the device, familiar to students of early drama, of punning in the choice of names for his characters. The true Saroyan touch appears here in the simple revelation that the five characters named Hughman (five Josephs, one Mary, one Ernest, and one August) are not related. In fact, none of them even knew any of the others until the play begins . . . (give us another drag off that before you throw it away, Bill...
...believe it or not, cut 15 pages, mostly from the first act--and it was a beautiful job of getting off the soap box) to the necessity--brought about by 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...
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