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...apply the same sort of reasoning to the life and work of Lillian Hellman, you might be inclined to think that her play Another Part of the Forest, which is playing at the Loeb tonight through Saturday, lacks the ring of truth. Who can believe a family in which the father is an utterly heartless tyrant, artfully manipulated by his sinister Southern belle of a daughter but so resented by his sons that one of them ends up robbing him at gunpoint? This is not to say that Hellman has drawn the dialogue verbatim from her own family dinner table...
Another Part of the Forest, like Hellman's earlier play The Little Foxes, concerns the Hubbard family of Alabama, a nouveau riche, money-hungry bunch in which the strong make a practice of destroying the weak. In choosing the subject, Hellman has gone beyond her immediate roots--divided between New York and New Orleans--to the more remote history of her mother's clan, the New houses, an Alabama banking family who had moved to New Orleans and whose squabbles Hellman witnessed as a child at Sunday dinner...
...professionals have made a botch of it, in Percy's view: the transformational grammarians, bickering over esoteric aspects of an arcane theory, have lost sight of the forest for the trees. And they've lost sight of language, too--the proper concerns of linguists have been parceled out to specialists in psychology, anthropology, theology and so forth. Percy feels he is the man to bring order to all this mess...
Another Part of the Forest. Not quite up to the level of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, although it contains many of the same characters. Still worth seeing, though. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and July 21-26 at 8, except Saturdays...
Another Part of the Forest. Anyone familiar with Lillian Hellman's work will not want to miss this, and anyone unfamiliar with it should probably take this opportunity to remedy the situation. This play, written nine years after The Little Foxes, resumes the story of the loveable Hubbard family and its tale of passion, intrigue, fear and loathing. Opens Wednesday at the Loeb at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets brought in advance and student rush tickets...