Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screen Directors Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Mickey Rooney in William Saroyan's The Human Comedy...
...producer who had asked him for a play, William Saroyan scribbled his thanks and regrets on a postcard: "I do not believe any producer can afford to produce one of my plays. They are all potential failures, and my terms are unfair. Jim Dandy has been published (and unproduced) a long time. A great play; a surefire money-loser...
Recently, he returned from a European tour to find that Publisher-Impresario Alexander Sandor Ince, whom the staff called "the headlong Hungarian," had romped through most of the magazine's capital, including $30,000 from Doris Duke. Hiring & firing had taken a whimsical turn: Playwright William Saroyan, hired as a drama reviewer, was fired before he got a single review into print. Ince had not collected for many ads, and distribution was a mess: Theatre Arts, seldom to be seen in the Times Square theater district, was going begging on newsstands in Chicago flophouse neighborhoods. Yet somehow, circulation...
...William Saroyan tackled much the same problem for the New York Times Magazine: "The theater is everything it ought to be right now, but it is more frequently other things...
...Time of Your Life. William Saroyan's woozy salute to alcoholics unanimous, with James Cagney, James Barton, and an enthusiastic following (TIME, June...