Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world premiere of William Saroyan's latest play will be presented over the weekend by the players of the Tributary Theatre, with performances scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night only...
...approach--obviously inspired by his induction in the army-- throws the Saroyan with a thesis of Love with a capital, philosophical L in a new form, and a far more successful one than that of his recent "Go Away, Old Man," which closed after 13 performances on Broadway earlier this season. Bill's ranting at Hollywood lost effect through sheer over broadness and repetition in that play; here, he strikes at the army and war with something that can best he described as gentleness (!) but with a result comparable to a good termite job: It doesn't scream...
...play is one of Saroyan's simplest, even though the third act centers around a live man in a casket. Saroyan is going classic: he introduces clowns in the 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...
...Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human Comedy ($2.75), lit with occasional passages of warm humor, became insipid with its determined intellectual baby talk...
Worse still, Saroyan is a sloppy housekeeper...