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...Lillian Hellman, gathers up a Jewish family of toadstools to prove that modern U.S. life is poisonous. In this emetic comedy, Playwright Hellman retches over psychoanalysts, alcoholics, beatniks, sentimental Negrophiles, romanticizers of the American Indian, epicene writers, slick shysters who run homes for the aged, the eel-spined younger generation, the middle-aged materialistic middle class, the hot-and-cold war-babied economy, the affluent society, and-horror of horrors-store-bought bread. This catalogue of latter-day evils presumably calls for the wrath of Jeremiah. Unfortunately, Lillian Hellman only manages to turn bile into bilgewater...
...newest bit of fancy, the stuff seems genuine enough. So is her new-found stardom. At 21, with only eight films to her credit, Miss Mimieux (pronounced Mee-mee-yer) captured the plum part of the rich, put-upon child-bride in the screen version of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic, for which she receives top billing, right along with Geraldine Page and Dean Martin. Considering the fact that just three years ago she was playing Weena, the forward-thinking girl in a science-fiction fantasy, The Time Machine-and that only her role as the lovely...
...Monday night Ursula Oppens '65 and Geoffrey T. Hellman '65 will take part in a demonstration class taught by pianist Leonard Shure. Afterwards, Shure, who has performed with major orchestras including the Boston Symphony, will play Beethoven's Sonata Opus...
...subject that Miss Hellman treats with particular humor and good sense is the uneasy relationship between post-ghetto Jews and Negroes. The play opens with Berney singin' on his guitar "De life of a nigger ain't much good..." a point to which the Halpern maid, who overhears him, speaks with some feeling. In a later scene, Berney urges social action on a Negro who mugs him, more or less to shut him up. As these two episodes perhaps suggest, there is considerable overlap in the construction. Since a scene or two might be cut in the process of tightening...
...Mother, My Father and Me is the fourth work Miss Hellman has adapted for the stage. Collected with Montserrat, The Lark, and Candide it would fill a tidy volume. Louis Kronenberger seems the logical man to add an introduction on the playwright's style of adaptation...