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...Searching Wind (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) gave Broadway its first really provocative drama of the season. Unlike Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, her The Searching Wind is not predominantly taut, violent, intense. Its span is long and its world spacious, though the action itself is too crowded at times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct...
...Daphne Hellman, blonde, curvilinear socialite harpist, lost a New York Court of Appeals decision in her fight for custody of her three-year-old son. Winner: the husband she divorced in 1941, Henry Adsit Bull Jr., Town & Country's playful editor...
...Herald Tribune and the N.Y. Times, 326 citizens of more or less good will invited the nation to follow the newest Communist party line. The occasion: the tenth anniversary of Georgi Dimitrov's epic Reichstag trial. The citizens: a spicy mixture of Earl Browder, Arturo Toscanini, Lillian Hellman. The party line: a united front of "progressives, liberals and democrats" behind Georgi Dimitrov. (Most newspaper readers asked themselves blankly: "Now who the hell...
Watch on the Rhine (Warner) is Lillian Hellman's successful anti-Nazi play without a Nazi in it,* transferred almost bodily to celluloid. That play and film are alike as two swastikas is small wonder...
...have been added to the film for additional scenes written by picturewise Lillian Hellman...