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...Name is ARAM-William Saroyan-Harcourt, Brace...
...want to know how to explain that perfumed letter to your mother-in-law, you can learn from "Too Much Johnson." It's not Saroyan but it's got more laughs than folks like Mrs. George S. Kaufmann can whip into a play, and that...
Along with the usual standbys of a fan magazine (reviews, gossip, puffs), Stage will present each month words and music of a new song, full text of a current Broadway show. November's play: The Man Who Came To Dinner. Regular contributors are Alexander Woollcott, Clare Booth, William Saroyan...
...White-Haired Boy" has all the car-marks of a good play. Satirizing an author whom the Gallup poll has concluded to be William Saroyan, it's crammed with crack-pot situations that would do justice to "You Can't Take It With You." Only this time it's Mrs. Kaufman along with Charles Martin who are the authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets...
Another U. S. folk group, the Italian-Americans, preoccupies John Fante, author of Wait Until Spring, Bandini in Dago Red (Viking; $2.50). It is perhaps 1940's best book of short stories: the sort many people wish that William Saroyan, with a grip on himself at last, would write. With the emotional richness of his race and his Church, Fante writes mostly of his childhood-First Communion, baseball ambitions, parochial schools, his volatile father, long-suffering mother-always an easier trick than to write well of the adult world. But his best tale, "A Wife for Dino Rossi...