Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passion for oversimplification, prefers to believe that Rosemary Clooney was created overnight by one record, an Armenian-American calypso called Come On-a My House ("I'm gonna give-a you everything . . ."). Come On-a My House did make the public Clooney-conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells...
Playwright William Saroyan replied to a letter in the New York Times attacking his "egotistical behavior." His stand: "It is often difficult if not impossible for natural behavior not to seem egotistical; furthermore, it is not imperative for a writer to be careful not to seem egotistical to some people...
Viewers of Omnibus have seen a slow-motion film of a Texas jackrabbit crossing a field. They have seen Saroyan playlets and French ballet. They have heard Helen Hayes read fairy tales, and watched such history-made-easy scripts as Maxwell Anderson's The Trial of Anne Boleyn. In general, the show's filmed offerings have been better than its live productions. Critics gave high marks to Novelist James Agee's five-part scenario dealing with Abraham Lincoln's early years, and to the program's unusual films such as the Danish Palle Alone, which...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). The Ford Foundation's new 90-minute experimental show with Helen Hayes in William Saroyan's The Christmas Tie, a Lincoln drama produced by Richard de Rochemont. Moderator: Alistair Cooke...
...theoretical latitude is the fact that it was designed (and is supported) by the Ford Foundation, whose object is not money but an attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic Haitian dance with Jean Leon Destine, and clips from an X-ray movie...