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...Lilliam Hellman, the well-known playwright and author, who was blacklisted in the '50s for suspected ties with the Communist Party, has been selected by South House as this fall's Atherton Lecturer...
...Hellman will lead a question and answer session rather than lecture, in the South House's Cabot Hall living room on October 25, Jerome E. Fischer, executive assistant to the master of South House said yesterday...
...film works up some steam only when it is recounting the central anecdote of the original story, a scary 1937 train ride in which Hellman (Fonda) smuggles $50,000 to Julia (Redgrave) and her antifascist comrades in Berlin. Director Zinnemann (High Noon) brings a Graham Greenesque sense of intrigue to this adventure, and he sets up a powerful climactic scene. When Hellman finally arrives in a smoky Berlin cafe to deliver the loot, her terse, hurried conversation with Julia sums up everything the film has been trying to say about friendship, political commitment and growing up. Simultaneously the two star...
...bland scenes that dwell on Hellman's love affair with Writer Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) are as cryptic as they are irrelevant. Meanwhile, other poorly delineated supporting characters prance around without apparent purpose...
DIED. Geoffrey T. Hellman, 70, prolific New Yorker staff writer for close to half a century; of cancer; in Manhattan. Hellman's contributions to "Talk of the Town," his acerbic profiles of such legendary characters as Alfred Knopf, and his portraits of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History ("Bankers, Bones, and Beetles") are masterpieces of New Yorker prose...