Re: will and plays
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:06:49 +1100
I for one would like to know more about Salinger's time as entertainment
co-ordinator on a cruise ship, which seems to have influenced a number of
his early pieces - most obviously, `Teddy', but also the idea of the Glass
family as vaudevillians and entertainers of a borderline tawdry sort. Not
to forget it was the summer he had a crush on the actress Joan Caulfield
and apparently had a friend on the cruise ship named Holden. But I do also
agree with you Will - you never get the sense that Salinger is speaking
from the wings, do you?
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> Salinger flirted with the idea of staging Catcher and playing Holden but
> not too seriously...it's funny that he was a bit of a performer once, but
> makes sense if you see him still performing on the page instead of the
> stage, will