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Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will not deliver the Theodore Spencer Memorial lecture this spring. Harry Levin, professor of English and a member of the Memorial Foundation's invitation committee, announced last night that the group had withdrawn its invitation to Kazan. Another speaker will be chosen "within the next few weeks," he declared...
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...