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...York's critics gave every sign of wanting to welcome Barbara home with loud huzzas when she came back to Broadway last fall in John Steinbeck's gauntly Saroyanesque play, Burning Bright. But in the face of Steinbeck's dreary obscurities, the best most of them could muster was a cordial hello. Last month, when Barbara at last rode into town on a good play, the huzzas were unanimous...
...flamboyant dames on the book jackets, and accused a distributor of peddling obscene literature. Then County Attorney John Duffy, a Notre Dame graduate who takes his knowledge of literature seriously looked over the evidence. The obscene books turned out to include bestsellers by Somerset Maugham, MacKinlay Kantor and John Steinbeck, and a collection of art masterpieces which had in it nudes by Velasquez and Titian. He dismissed the charge and for doing so forthwith got the clubwomen on his neck. They thought that such books should be barred from the newsstands and put out of reach of children. Duffy invited...
Married. John (The Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck, 49, novelist; and Elaine Scott, thirtyish, divorced wife of Cinemactor Zachary Scott; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...
...John Steinbeck fared even worse, but made less fuss about his failure. His novelette, Burning Bright (produced also as a play that flopped), was a slick but transparently thin plea for universal love. Robert Penn Warren went back to his native Kentucky for a frontier novel of violence and tortured emotions, World Enough and Time. It had power and murkiness in about equal proportions...