Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Chapman, drama critic of the New York Daily News, Marc Connelly, author of "The Green Pastures," and Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes," agreed with Richard Rodgers, composer and producer of "The King and I" that musicals "have, for the moment, taken the place of the serious drama on our stages, but not for good...
Marc Connelly, author of "The Green Pastures," which was recently reviewed in New York, will also appear at the forum, along with Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes," and John Chapman, drama critic of the New York Daily News. Elliott Norton, drama critic of the Boston Post, will moderate the discussion...
Today, the topic is "How Free is the Press?", while on November 30, the Forum will present a program called "Is the Musical Comedy Replacing Serious Drama?" The list of speakers for the latter program includes Richard Rodgers, Marc Connelly, and Lillian Hellman...
Montserrat, which enjoyed a brief Broadway run last year in an English adaptation by Lillian Hellman, hammers hard against the brutal Spanish tyranny that Bolivar battled to overthrow. (Sample: "You live under the domination of men who are ferocious and pitiless. Do you have no pride? Do you not want to rebel against assassins?") Members of the audience, all of whom had been living for 18 months under a state of siege imposed by the Conservative government, loudly applauded every reference to liberty. One man even rose and shouted, "Viva la libertad...
...Miss Hellman's real emphasis is on separate frustrations and intimate crises, so that a Southern comedy of manners is always rubbing elbows with a Chekhovian study of character. And The Autumn Garden has the relaxed Chekhov method without his unifying lyrical mood-his sense that if people delude themselves, life is itself delusive. Actually Chekhov cuts deeper than Miss Hellman because, being a realist rather than a moralist, he very seldom grants his characters the ability to face the truth about themselves...