Word: elia
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Splendor in the Grass (Warner). Director Elia Kazan, who for about 20 years has exerted a powerful but often Freudulent influence on the art and ethos of the U.S. stage and screen, is a man who believes that every slice of life is a Wiener Schnitzel. The theory works pretty well with the plays of Tennessee Williams, which Kazan perennially directs, because most of Williams' characters are merely engaged in a morbid game of tag your id. It works less well with the plays of William Inge, which Kazan occasionally directs, because most of Inge's characters have...
Outspoken critics of Broadway are about as common these days as squirrels are in the Yard. Elia Kazan ran through several of the familiar complaints about the American theatre Tuesday afternoon at the Boston University Theatre. His pointed remarks drew applause and laughter from the drama students in the audience; but, lacking any freshness of outlook, this string of acidulous quips merely bolstered the now fashionable party line that holds the New York stage, as well as most other American entertainment media, in disfavor...
...transforming verse rhythms into "conversational" cadences a la Jason Robards, Jr., Lincoln Center's opening season may well turn out worse than the Loeb's. Whatever the future of Lincoln Center, and the American theatre, let us hope that it does not depend on the insight and vision of Elia the Prophet...
...feel exhilarated: at 23, she is just about the raciest filly to come down the Hollywood sound track since Liz Taylor. Her new pictures, both slated for mid-October release, are Splendor in the Grass, a bitter harvest of frustration and failure written by William Inge and directed by Elia Kazan, and West Side Story, the widescreen, cinema version of the Broadway musical tragedy, in which Natalie enacts the poignant role of Maria with a carefully coached Puerto Rican accent and dubbed-in songs...
Only 24, Beatty has not yet been seen by the public in a motion picture, but he is the lead in Director Elia Kazan's soon-to-be-released Splendor in the Grass (an original screenplay by Broadway's William Inge) ; and opposite Vivien Leigh, he has just made The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' only novel, directed by José Quintero. Top directors, in short, consider him the best of the new young leading men. With a facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and mannerisms of James Dean...