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...called "well-made" play with the so-called "mood" play. Champion of the former group is Lillian Hellman, whose melodramatic hits, including "Watch on the Rhine" which opened here last night, are taut, compact plays, carefully plotted and manipulated. Prime progenitor of the "mood" plays is, of course, William Saroyan...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 3/17/1942 | See Source »

...Play by Saroyan (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. CBS) entitled There's Something I Got to Tell You, i.e., about Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Christmas List | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Please hand one large and beautiful bouquet to the guy responsible for the piece on Saroyan's Fables in the Books section of the Nov. 17 issue. It's a honey, a wow and the perfect commentary on the Saroyantics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...William Saroyan can raise the same kind of stirring laugh that Chekhov could. Sample: Jim Dandy's henchman reads him a sales letter from one ex-Jockey Earl Catfoot ("Why should you go without? Go with. . . . Don't be a sucker-be a winner."). The pessimist comments: "It wouldn't help." Says Jim Dandy, controlling his temper: "You may be mistaken. Weighing one hundred pounds, the man has ridden horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in the World, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...National Theater Conference bestows acting rights to the play on community and college theaters for what they can afford to pay. Last week Broadway critics journeyed to Princeton, N. J. to see the play performed by the Theatre Intime, an undergraduate amateur group. For further news of William Saroyan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in the World, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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