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...prison barracks in suburban New York, on a black night somewhere this side of 1984, sits a U.S. liberal jailed by the Russian conquerors, and remembers how indifferent she was to a poor, underfed little girl back in grammar school ; the girl has grown up to be Comrade Hilda Kantrowitz, the public prosecutor...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). No Tears for Hilda, with Mary Sinclair...
Samson Raphaelson's Hilda Crane brings the star of Streetcar back to Broadway for a fine portrayal of a girl who loved a college professor but married a lawnmower manufacturer. Raphaelson and Miss Tandy, the critics claim, are excellent...
...Hilda Crane is such stuff as matinees are made of-one of those middle-class studies in scarlet chronicled from the first sleeping partner to the final sleeping pills. It expertly works the old Belasco formula of being realistic in all its details and stagy in all its essentials. Far from being convincing, it is not really specific: the characters are all preshrunk types colliding in pretested situations. But though often banal, the play is seldom boring...
This is partly due to Jessica Tandy's highly resourceful performance as Hilda, reminiscent though it is of her Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. She portrays a woman full of inner violence and contradictory cravings, with overnight-hotel-room emotions that can find no permanent home. If she cannot really illuminate the part from within, outwardly she gives it an almost showy brilliance...