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John Dos Passos, William Saroyan. Her backers have been much impressed by two eminent French appraisals of Marianne Oswald : "She is an actress of song. She has a kind of bestial ugliness. But beauty passes, as they say, and the art of this ugly child will remain."-Colette...
...Most overrated play: Saroyan's pleasantly boozy but unimportant prizewinner, The Time of Your Life (185 performances...
Love's Old Sweet Song (by William Saroyan; produced by The Theatre Guild in association with Eddie Dowling). Opening the night before the New York Drama Critics Circle voted Saroyan's The Time of Your Life the best play of the season, his Love's Old Sweet Song gave the verdict a Bronx cheer. An adolescent free-for-all, with characters more like Mexican jumping beans than people, Love's Old Sweet Song is a travesty on many things, including the art of William Saroyan...
...Love's Old Sweet Song Saroyan has abandoned his boozy lyricism in favor of boyish pranks. A few of the pranks-including a visit to the Okies of something that does not exist-a traveling "college boy" subscription salesman for TIME-are quite funny. So are bits of the dialogue. But the play as a whole confuses bounce with brashness, hews to no comedic line, and eventually becomes as tiresome as a precocious child whose parents let him show off long past bedtime...
Pulitzer Prizes for 1940 were awarded to: Dirt-Novelist John Steinbeck for his Okie novel, The Grapes of Wrath; Playwright William Saroyan (who said he didn't want the prize) for The Time of Your Life, which last week also captured the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; Historian Carl Sandburg, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund...