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audience sadly thinned by a freak error, Lillian Hellman continued series of anecdotal reminisence at Loeb yesterday. She commented on observing that since success is at best "glancing kisses," so should be viewed as "glancing...
...insecurity often found its into the episodes she recounted, the of the modern era she has discussing. With reflections rather despair, Miss Hellman criticized demands for overriding conformed and challenged the aims of such as Broadway, off-Broadway, and the House Committee on American Activities...
...choose to separate myself from the active life of the theater, because I do not find its standards healthy for an artist," Lillian Hellman said yesterday in the first of three lectures on "People and Plays...
...Miss Hellman prefaced her remarks with a threefold explanation of her misgivings about discussing the theater. First, she admitted a strong distaste for people who incessantly talk about the theater. "My head swizzles often," she said, "at such talk. Talking excessively about art is a sterile form of living which tends to drive art out of existence...
Then came her first success with The Children's Hour. During the rehearsals for that play, Miss Hellman made a diary entry which remains a summation of the theater for her: "Lisp, lisp, lisp, and Thomas Wolfe." She explained that "lisp" refers to a character whose manner of speech she refused to change despite continued harrying from her director and others. Thomas Wolfe represents the endless complaints she heard from Aline Bernstein, her set designer and Wolfe's mistress...