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Other unsold successes: Clare Boothe's Margin For Error, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, the bawdy musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady, which if filmed would have to be housebroken or probably go in one Hays Office door and out the other; the John Barrymore fandango, My Dear Children; and, despite many reported deals, The Philadelphia Story...
...kindly and sanguine that the Broadway critics who earlier this season gushed over Saroyan's boozy, happy-go-lucky The Time of Your Life last week bawled Odets out for turning Night Music into the same kind of Saroyanesque carnival. Mr. Odets may well find this change of tune a little confusing. But while basking in his brave new world he may also find it worth thinking about that he, who in the past was always being compared to Chekhov, is now being compared to Saroyan...
...Beyond Realism--Chekhov;" March 28, "Barrie vs. Galsworthy;" April 11, "Three English Comic Writers: Wilde, Maugham and Coward;" April 18, "Modern Tragedy--Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell Anderson;" April 25, "The American Theatre Comes of Age--Barry, Kaufman, etc.;" and May 9, "The Drama of Social Significance -- Odets, Saroyan...
...Time of Your Life. William Saroyan's tender, boozy picture of life in a waterfront honky-tonk (TIME...
...didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless they brought their own food. Even on those terms, they came back. When Heitor Villa-Lobos returned...