Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Autumn Garden (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is a strikingly new kind of Lillian Hellman play. The plot is not at all striking and is secondary to the people; the people are pretty average people, neither vipers nor vixens. The scene is the South-an elegant summer boarding house run by a wellborn, middle-aged spinster. The guests are largely people of her own generation and kind-fiberless, frustrated people: a quiet, cynical drinker who has never married; a quiet-seeking general married to a fool; a confused young man halfheartedly about to marry the spinster...
...past acts, so that for most of them the middle of the journey is equally the destination. The play's point-that lack of character is also fate-is driven sharply home. Its people,, though much alike in stature and background, are vividly drawn and brilliantly differentiated. Miss Hellman's portraits, without being unsympathetic, are adultly uncompromising...
...topic of the Forum, held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium, was "Women's Education: Career or Kitchen." The two other speakers, playwright Lillian Hellman and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, agreed that women's education was inadequate to meet the demands of a tremendously complex society, but claimed that this shortcoming carried over to men's education as well. Miss Hellman stated that "the inability to find a proper role in life cannot be confined to career women, but all modern women and men as well...
Adler, Altmeyer, Baker, D. G. Black, D. Black, Budabin, Cadenhead, Coons, Cover, Davidson, Dollin, Douglas, Dowd, French, Gilman, Goldberg, Goodman, Gordon, Green, Greenburg, Grote, Hahn, Harris, Hellman, Hersey, Hollman, Huttenbauer, Johnson, L. Kane, S. Kane, Kean, Kiphart, Kripke, Laserson, Leahow, Levenson, Levett, Madden, Martin, Miller, Manafo, Powers, Rolsman, Richardson, Rubel, Saletan, Swartzberg, Soule, Trett, Ulin, Vickery, Yazegian and Yoskowitz...
Speakers at the Forum are: Miss Lillian Hellman, well-known playwright; Dr. Marynia Farnham, author of "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex"; and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College. The moderator is President Benjamin F. Wright of Smith College...