Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omnibus (Dec. 16, 9 p.m., E.S.T.) will stage a play by William Saroyan, The Christmas Tie, with Helen Hayes as a refined shoplifter...
...WHOLE VOYALD, by William Saroyan (243 pp.; Atlantic Little, Brown; $3.75), a book of autobiographical sketches and short stories, begins with a confession from one of the least reticent of men. "Before my first book was published I was not a drinker," declares Saroyan, "but the following nine years, until I was drafted into the Army, I drank as much as I liked, and I frequently drank steadily for nine or ten hours at a time ... I believe I have learned a lot while I have been drinking with friends, just as most of us may say we have learned...
Despite this disarmingly candid appeal, readers should be warned not to rush to the flamboyant Armenian's fiscal relief unless they are incurable addicts of the wacky, the whimsical and the whopperish. Only in Saroyan, perhaps, could one meet the vice president of a cemetery company who yearns to write ad copy like "Inter here. A lot for your money." Or the off-key executive who plays Cupid by posting a lonely young man in an empty cubbyhole in the piano warehouse with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates...
Funniest episode: the two Pal Joeys get hold of a magazine called The Booster from a trusting U.S. businessman. Under Perles and Miller, the sheet's literary editors included William Saroyan, and it boasted a Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis. The new Booster's second and last issue contained a story of a man who completely vanished inside a beautiful girl in an igloo...
...collected works of William Saroyan-twelve full-length plays, seven novels and some 1,500 short stories-could be sap-boiled down to a single sentence, it would read, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." In the days of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Time of Your Life and My Name Is Aram, Saroyan brought to this simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy...