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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...
...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...
...Away, Old Man (by William Saroyan; produced by George Abbott) sicks one of the most unpredictable of playwrights on one of the screwiest of subjects-Hollywood. When the two collide at their looniest, Get Away, Old Man has some uproarious moments. But Playwright Saroyan's mad visions of Hollywood are curdled by his sour memories: for once, the theater's leading apostle of brotherly love is out to take a poke. His movie producer (Edward Begley) is a nauseous phony, a vicious heel. Saroyan is equally out to take a bow. His genius (Richard Widmark) of a scriptwriter...
Worse still, Saroyan is a sloppy housekeeper...