Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grocery was gobbled up by a supermarket. In quick succession, he became a singing waiter, a night-club master of ceremonies and a cheese salesman. Starting on Broadway in a play which failed to open, he proceeded to parts in six quick flops and a hit, Saroyan's Time of Your Life. This in turn led to his Hollywood start in a bit part with Hepburn and Tracy in Woman of the Year. He established himself in Wake Island. Greenwich Village is the first picture in which he has sung and danced. Next role: Captain Purvis in A Bell...
George Bernard Shaw, confronted by Author William Saroyan's request for an interview on behalf of the New York Times, put a $1,000 price on the privilege, then invited Saroyan to tea on a nonbusiness basis. After long pondering over what tribute whimsey should pay wit, Saroyan finally loaded himself down with $20 worth of greengrocer specialties, including hothouse melon, asparagus, mushrooms. Roared Vegetarian Shaw "Everybody seems to think I'm starving...
Private William Saroyan (The Human Comedy, The Beautiful People), his irrepressible individuality undiluted by Army life in a London film unit, was seen saluting a Red Cross worker. He explained: "I saluted the dignified expression on his face." Major Bobby Jones worked with Air Forces Intelligence, in a country town where sugar beets grow on the golf course. Pfc. Irwin Shaw, New Yorker author and anti-war playwright (Bury the Dead), traipsing across Piccadilly in his ill-fitting G.I. clothes, observed: "When we get out of here, they'll be dizzy with Lebensraum...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, often good for a column but never before a columnist, wrote a page of chatter for the New York Journal-American's syndicated magazine Home. Sample: the day after he first met his wife (Actress Carol Marcus), William Saroyan wrote her a poem called Snow. It began: "You are out of the snow of the past-the most beautiful thing in all the snow-the most delicate-the most alone...
...production is under the direction of Elliot Duvey, whose worries in the past week have ranged from the receipt of a revised script (Saroyan, believe it or not, cut 15 pages, mostly from the first act--and it was a beautiful job of getting off the soap box) to the necessity--brought about by mumps, of all things, knocking out the original castee--of doubling in the lealing role of army-bound Ernest Hughman. Fred Graves, who appears as August, the Hughman rejected by the army, bears an incarnal resemblance to Eddie Dowling, who has often appeared in Saroyan plays...