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...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...
Married. Geoffrey Theodore Hellman, New Yorker writer; and Daphne Bayne Bull; she for the second time (see below); in Reno...
Harry Hopkins had assigned him one of the most important posts on the world democratic front: the reorganization of trucking on the Burma Road. Dan Arnstein and two associates, M. F. Hellman and H. C. Davis, set off to take over. Mr. Arnstein's chief regret: that he could not take his taxi drivers with him to Burma. Moaned he: "Half the boys wanted to quit and go with me; the boys don't want to get paid for it-all they want is excitement...
...York Drama Critics' Circle, polling its annual vote for the season's best American play, last week got into its usual politico-dramatic wrangle. On the first ballot nine votes (a three-quarters plurality, or 15 votes, was needed to win) went to Lillian Hellman's passionate, anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine (TIME, April 14). Next came three votes for William Saroyan's dreamy The Beautiful People (see below), which had opened the night before...
...acts the play is mostly talk-of the supercharged, characterful kind that Playwright Hellman writes. But even intense garrulity does not make the play move. Then in the last act the stage takes fire with the struggle between the German and Rumanian, with Paul Lukas' remarkable portrayal of the German sadly, sensitively explaining why he has been willing to commit murder, why he is determined to martyr himself, if need be, for the anti-Nazi cause. In this scene Lukas certainly gives one of the great performances of recent years. Veteran Actress Lucile Watson is excellent as Lukas...