Word: paean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More truly a play and a much better one than My Heart's in the Highlands, The Time of Your Life unquestionably is. Out of a warm heart and a lively fancy Saroyan has written a paean to the essential goodness in life and people, a chant of love for the scorned & rejected. He has filled a San Francisco waterfront dive with prostitutes, sailors, cops, bums, drunks, slot-machine addicts, hoofers, young men in love, old men in rags. Some of these people are as touching as his battered Arab who plays an ancient, mournful wail upon a harmonica. Some...
...leading professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...
...Federal Theatre Project) tells the story of Jerry Dorgan, supposedly the first U. S. baby born in 1900. The play spans the same period and dramatizes many of the same events as The American Way; but Jerry is a worker's son and his story is no paean to the democratic formula. An indignant protest against a system which creates and cannot, cope with poverty and unemployment, it ends bitterly with Jerry killed during a strike...
...inject one thought into the paean of Hitler hate with which my compatriots of the world's most hysterical nation are now soiling your columns...
...Dick Tracy" radio child thriller. Last autumn he heard about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts by a group of proletarian mummers was arranged, the critics applauded vigorously, Mr. Shaw got a Hollywood contract and, since shrewd Broadway has caught on to the fact that one does not have to believe in collectivism to collect on the new vogue of social drama...