Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eugene O'Neill. 5. William Saroyan...
Following Cadogan's broadcast, the Harvard Radio Workshop will emerge from its winter hibernation to present William Saroyan's "Hello Out There," a study of a rapist awaiting his fate at the bands of a lynch...
...William Saroyan, long silent, was also working on a new play, whose title and subject suggested that he is still daring if not so young (38). The title: Lunatic Arena. The subject: "right now" and "everybody...
Nowadays, the Dollar Princess has been supplanted by a set of far more complex characters, chief among them Kitty Duval, the poetic prostitute in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Baffled Vienna listened to her megalophilic yearnings: "I like champagne, and . . . big houses with big porches, and big rooms with big windows, and big lawns, and big trees, and flowers . . . and big shepherd dogs sleeping in the shade." Wrote one critic: "What does he want, this Saroyan? If he did not live so far away, in San Francisco, I would go and ask him." But Viennese crowded...
...Allegretti would deserve a medal for endurance alone if he did not have other qualifications. After what must have been a trying ten minutes in "The Ping-Pong Players"--a sad sort of Little Theater Saroyan potboiler that could better have been left home--Allegretti took two widely divergent roles in the Odets, turning in a particularly good performance...