Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York drama critics, always eager to establish an issue and then take sides violently for or against it, have had a field-day in comparing the so-called "well-made" play with the so-called "mood" play. Champion of the former group is Lillian Hellman, whose melodramatic hits, including "Watch on the Rhine" which opened here last night, are taut, compact plays, carefully plotted and manipulated. Prime progenitor of the "mood" plays is, of course, William Saroyan...
...kind of grown-up version of the brat in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Evelyn is no less fiendish but much less frightening. In fact, so much effort is lavished on what she does, and so little on how cleverly she does it, that she ends up by being not frightening but fantastic. The authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough...
...propaganda plays produced in New York since the outbreak of the war in 1939, the only one that has approached this broader implication, while still retaining a sound statement of the German menace, is Lillian Hellman's "Watch On the Rhine," and it hasn't a single Nazi...
Watch on the Rhine (TIME, April 14). Lillian Hellman's passionate anti-Nazi drama, winner of last year's Critics' Circle award...
Watch on the Rhine. Lillian Hellman's potent anti-Nazi drama, which won the Critics' Circle award last year...