Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living dramatists drew a large collection of young theater enthusiasts to the Boston University School of Drama last week. Appearing very much at home with his horned-rimmed glasses and quiet, thoughtful manner, Arthur Miller launched into a plea for a new American Theater. Echoing the arguments of William Saroyan and others, Miller said that Broadway suffers from too much commercialism. The huge cost of producing a show, he pointed out, places an author under stifling pressure. The writer's reputation as a money maker, and therefore his future, hinges on every play that comes before the public, causing...
...Taurum forces soon include as engaging a set of oddballs as ever evaded a Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there...
Produced by ANTA's Gilbert Miller, with CARE as co-beneficiary, Album served up a two-hour, hot-to-cold potpourri of Broadway bits and pieces. Some of the players were topnotch: Helen Hayes in A Christmas Tie, Saroyan's one-act Omnibus comedy about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady...
...poet in Saroyan, unlike the prankster in him, lacks the power to override the facts of life. There is something beguiling about Saroyan's fantasies, but soft-bellied about his truths...
...generally pleasant cast are such well-known performers as Franchot Tone, Myron McCormick, Paula Laurence, Harold Lang, John Carradine. And with Irving Berlin's daughter Linda, Saroyan's ex-wife Carol Grace, and Stokowski's estranged wife Gloria Vanderbilt each playing a bit part, The Time of Your Life is the season's most glamorous bit-party...