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...content with just one show in an evening, the Harvard Dramatic Club is planning to open its fortieth season next month by singeing the boards of Sanders Theatre with a double feature production of Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" and a William Saroyan short, "The Ping-Pong Players...
Neither being full-length shows, HDC President Paul Burgraff '48 plans to contrast Odets' powerful social drama with Saroyan's light comedy as an experiment in theater technique. "Waiting for Lefty" is a drama of the labor problem, while "The Ping-Pong Players" is a light one-act love scene...
...still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...
...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...
There are some sheep among the goats in the minor parts, but they are few in number. Somehow, it is the awkward, yearning, gentle people who inhabit all of Saroyan's plays that the young hopefuls of summer stock are most capable of getting across to an audience...