Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
After exhausting the delays of jurisprudence, chubby William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry, surrendered to Chicago police to serve out his six-month jail sentence imposed 18 years ago for pandering...
...this Freudian potpourri a father in love with snails, and scores of definitely unattractive adolescents in heavy shoes and long dresses showing figures at their worst, and you have "sweet sixteen, youth smiling through its tears"--while the onlooker bites his fingernails in depressed frustration...
Crimson Network programs will come through the steam heating pipes. But kicking your radiator and twiddling the valve isn't the way to tune in on music, sweet and low. A radio, complete with shiny tubes, is the open sesame to Harvard's newest experiment. As over a professional network, programs will be widely varied, and no one policy will channel the presentation...