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Picking up characters just when external events promise a crisis can make a writer's job easier because it guarantees a dramatic situation. In Autumn Garden, Lillian Hellman does not depend on circumstantial crisis. Instead she has placed ten people in a once-fashionable home outside New Orleans, and lets them develop the play by well-exposed attempts to define their relationships and to regear their lives. Almost everyone fails; only a European girl, Sophie, is young and tough enough to extricate herself...
...Children's Hour (Mirisch; United Artists) is Director William Wyler's second try at doing right by Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage melodrama, whose burden was that lesbianism may be regrettable, but a nasty, spying child is simply intolerable. In 1936, when the first screenplay was made, Hollywood shied away from abnormal psychology. Wyler dropped the tainted Hellman title (the picture was renamed These Three) and changed an irregular triangle (young doctor loves girl teacher, and so does another girl teacher) into a right triangle (the two girl teachers love the young doctor...
...film showing and subsequent discussion on movie-making is this year's Spencer Lectureship, a series of annual programs on aspects of drama. Past Spencer Lecturers, usually practicing artists, have included T. S. Eliot '10, Lillian Hellman, Michael Redgrave, Arthur Miller, and Elia Kazan...
...would be nice if the same could be said for Arthur D. Hellman's piece on bomb shelters and Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s critique of the Bender Report. Both articles contain much good research and many perceptive thoughts. But lapses in writing and organization are their undoing. Only the most dedicated reader will follow Mr. Hellman's string of quotations to the end. And those who are initially impressed (as I was) with many of Mr Babe's observations will be disappointed to see him overcome by inarticulateness when he tries to formulate conclusions from them...
...Liebling's book, the same theme occurs: If only more people read the New York Times, how much better a world this would be. But at least the reviewer, Arthur D. Hellman '63, has the good sense to dissent. "Does the American public want good newspapers." Hellman asks. His question is not very profound, but it is the only recognition in Comment of the fact that the press works in a social context...