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...Show Business and the Realities" will be the theme of Elia Kazan's Theodore Spencer Memorial Foundation lecture Harry T. Levin, professor of English, announced yesterday...
Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will deliver the second Theodore Spencer Memorial Foundation lecture on Wednesday, May 14, in New Lecture Hall, Harry T. Levin, professor of English, announced yesterday...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...
...tense moments of writing, in individual scenes, Flight into Egypt becomes vivid and even terrifying. Elia Kazan's direction is forceful, and as the suffering husband & wife, Paul Lukas and Gusti Huber give fine, telling performances. But the play falls far short of significant drama. It clearly concerns not just the plight of refugees, but the question of their always being foreigners, and the corruption that menaces them in a foreign land. Yet even while it interlaces these three themes, the play at bottom rests on none of them; at bottom it is pure domestic drama-the anguished struggle...
...Lili Engel's character than to any coherent story. Their own character are sketchily drawn; one--a hunchback doctor by the name of Ghoulos--makes no sense at all. Except for Freund, a Viennese merchant convincingly portrayed by Paul Mann, these minor characters generally overact, perhaps because Director Elia Kazan feels the need of sharp contrast to the complexity of Mrs. Engel...