Re: JDS The Poet

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Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
Salinger always seems to have a bit of an
> ambivalent relationship with acting and plays - after all, taking on the
> persona of a fictional person would have to be the highest form of
> phoniness ever, 

And yet he served as a theatre critic at Ursinus College and declared
himself interested in dramatics at Valley Forge.

Carlos Baker reports that in a letter to Hemingway, Salinger said he
would like to play the lead in the play version of Catcher. He also told
Whit Burnett that he would like to act in plays and act in them himself.

And he didn't hesitate to show his son support at his opening night on
Broadway. . .

And if I remember correctly, Zooey implores Franny to pursue her
acting.  "You were good. And when I say good, I mean good,"  he says of
Franny's performance in a play that he and Buddy (?) saw in secret.    

As you state, Salinger's relationship to the theatre is ambivalent. . .
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M.E. Pierce
Dept. of English, SFASU
http://TITAN.SFASU.EDU/~f_pierceme/
"I loaf and invite my soul. . ." Uncle Walt

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