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...Dandy (by William Saroyan; released by National Theater Conference) is a good show at least part of the time; whether it is a play is another question. It might as well have been called Fun & Stuff in the San Francisco Public Library. According to frabjous Author Saroyan, "it contains no characters, no imitations of people, and no plot. It contains the writer (weight 170), the reader when read, and the beholder when seen...
...Author Saroyan, for once, is unfair to himself. His latest theatrical what-is-it, which he has literally given to the world,* is like watching the romp of a terrible child who knows when he is being cute. At times the show-off gets tiresome, but there are moments when the beholder is genuinely amused, others when he is moved and impressed...
...chiller admitted: "I added the experiences of some other people to make the book as effective as possible." Armenian Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), glossy darling of the '20s (The Green Hat), reached Manhattan by freighter from Britain, en route to Hollywood. Latest report on the other Armenian, William Saroyan: he plans to start a saloon modeled on his play, The Time of Your Life, on Manhattan's fly-blown Third Avenue...
...month retirement to go to work on the first of four pictures, at a salary of $50,000 a picture. Said she, "A wonderful vacation ... no school or anything-just fun, like it used to be." / / Veteran Slinker Marlene Dietrich accepted a mother role. / / William Saroyan offered the film rights of The Time of Your Life free to any studio that would contribute "every penny of the proceeds" to national defense. / / Canyon-mouthed Martha Raye swerved her car to avoid another, ran off the road and chuted 150 feet down into a canyon, sprained an ankle...
...amusing thing about moving pictures," wrote voluble William Saroyan, "is the enormous number of nonentities who work together to make something any normal half-wit would prefer not to make in the first place...