Pasadena's thriving Playhouse had what was locally termed an "event" last week. While 400 customers were turned away, 850 squeezed in to witness the world premiere of Gertrude Stein's Yes Is for a Very Young Man.
Whether, afterwards, those who got in had a clearer idea of Yes than those who did not, remained a moot point. Between the acts the spectators, if bewitched, were also pretty bothered and bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a...
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