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Unfortunately for the Hearst strategy, The Free Company, a non-commercial series of democratic propaganda plays by people like Maxwell Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and William Saroyan, operates under what is virtually a Government charter. The Company's chairman, distinguished Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On), pointed out that he is a dollar-a-year man with the Department of Justice, had shaped up The Free Company on official advice from his good friend Solicitor General Francis Biddle...
With the explanation: "It entertains me. . . . That is not enough. . . . People must tell me," Playboy William Saroyan, last year's Pulitzer Prizewinner, advertised in the newspapers for 750 people "who have never seen a Broadway play" to view his The Beautiful People, now in rehearsal, on the cuff. By noon a houseful of beautiful non-paying customers had applied for tickets...
...gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality of the situation has the emotional conviction of a nightmare; the suspense, built on a wealth of realistic detail, is as gripping as a war in Europe. Though the dialogue sometimes smacks of the Hemingway-Saroyan tradition, Mailer, who incidentally hies from New Jersey, has completely avoided the artificialities and the polished sophistications characteristic of so many Advocate short stories and replaced them with conviction, a strongly developed plot, and keen representation of detail...
...doesn't know a damn thing about it. If I gave him a single lesson he would be terrible. He's one of the few real primitives. I know he's no fake, as some so-called primitives are. He's to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
Writers of The Free Company contribute their services gratis, with CBS underwriting all other costs, including the expense of short-waving the show to Latin America. The Bill of Rights provides a pattern for the series. Following Saroyan's lyric outbursts on illuminated Americans, Robert Sherwood will dwell on freedom of the press, Marc Connelly on freedom to teach, Orson Welles on freedom of assembly, Archibald MacLeish on freedom of speech, Paul Green on racial freedom. Filling out the broadcasts, now designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson...