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...artfully accomplished cast, Anne DeSalvo probably rates a golden pasta award as a diet-conscious Italian widow with the table manners of a seagull when it comes to other people's plates. Gemini is the kind of play the early William Saroyan might have enjoyed or, for that matter, written...
...made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster. After his prizewinning production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life in 1939, Dowling went on to his greatest triumph. In 1945, he turned down a surefire commercial play to take a chance with an unknown playwright, Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie, which Dowling coproduced, co-directed, narrated and acted in with Laurette Taylor, made...
...Hold it. Saroyan's Armenians are no more sentimentalized than the Jews of Sholem Aleichem, the English of Charles Dickens, the Scots of Robert Burns, the Irish of Sean O'Casey or the Americans of Mark Twain. Read My Name Is Aram again, please...
Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did. Instead, after the atrocious accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these...
...Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan, is a journey back to October, 1939--one that is sometimes sentimental, but nearly always absorbing. One character after another wanders in to Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, each with his or her own memories, hopes, disappointments, etc. The play is certainly dated, but that's part of its charm. And this production sets the right tone, with a set that could serve as a museum model for a down-and-out bar in 1939. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., except...