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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...
...AFTERNOON OF THE WORLD by William Saroyan. 245 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
There's more loving here than even a Saroyan fan can stand. "Rosey's my daughter," muses the hero, "and Van's my son and Laura's their mother so loving them is easy. So I love everybody else, too. I love the dead, I love them especially. But not so much as I love the unborn." And most wondrous of all, not so much as he loves "the unborn who are never going to be born." But how about the reader who's never going to read it? He'll take more love...
Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...
...years ago in northern California's lush, lettuce-growing Salinas valley, Steinbeck turned the area into a kind of strip-cartoon Yoknapatawpha County, where even the local Snopeses are kind to small animals. At times, the Salinas corn has been as high, if not as dry, as William Saroyan's young eye; at others, the view from Steinbeck's wayward literary bus has resembled Henry Miller's sex-sodden Tropics, minus the belly laughs...