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MAMA I LOVE You (245 pp.)-William Saroyan - Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...collected works of William Saroyan-twelve full-length plays, seven novels and some 1,500 short stories-could be sap-boiled down to a single sentence, it would read, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." In the days of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Time of Your Life and My Name Is Aram, Saroyan brought to this simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy...
While Workshop directors recognized that radio drama had to be sound drama, it counted words as an important type of sound to stir the imagination. The program counted among its writers Stephen Vincent Benet, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker and Norman Corwin, who created an effective impressionistic style of radio writing...
...circulation people in New York celebrated the 2,000,000 domestic milestone by inviting a hot jazz combo to the TIME & LIFE Building lobby for a midday jam session. At 540, many expected those electronic units to signal the event by lighting up like a pinball machine in a Saroyan play - but the machines went on unemotionally, clocking their way toward TIME'S third million...
Still, by adding excitement to Saroyan's frequent humor, this last play does its part to make the presentation a success. With the help of some fine acting, and with the aid of Geoffrey Chalmer's restrained but effective sets, the Leverett House Dramatic Society proves that an evening with Saroyan can be a very satisfactory evening indeed...