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Stage and screen director Elia Kazan still doesn't know when he'll find the time to deliver this year's Theodore Spencer Foundation Memorial lecture. He told the CRIMSON yesterday that other commitments may keep him from giving the talk when he comes to Boston for the tryout of "Flight into Egypt," the play he is currently directing. The show opens in Boston on March 3, and the New York premiere is set for March...
When John Steinbeck's screenplay is not dishing up primer politics and flabby moralizing (the unlettered bandit is made to mouth such sentiments as: "I don't want to be the conscience of the world"), Viva Zapata! is good, muscular horse opera. Director Elia Kazan has filled it with vigorous action-horsemen charging, ammunition trains being dynamited and peons fighting. Striking sequence: President Francisco Madero being shot down by the military in the glare of automobile headlights while a siren drowns out his cries...
Best Director: Streetcar's Elia Kazan...
Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will give this year's Theodore Spencer Memorial Foundation lecture, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and chairman of the Foundation's invitation committee, announced yesterday...
Where the film departs from the stage production is in the emphasis of the direction. Perhaps to make up for the confinement of the setting, Elia Kazan set his cameramen and actors to highlight every eccentricity in the cast. Brando responded to this kind of direction by developing an overgrowth of quirks, brilliantly freakish, that dominate every scene in which he enters. As he appears before fastidious Blanche for the first time, the camera-eye stares fascinated at a huge sweat-stain on his T-shirt, just above the area where he is scratching himself; for half a minute...