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...Hilda Crane (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by Arthur Schwartz) is purely synthetic stuff, but it is chock-full of what a lot of people mean when they speak of a play. It dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn...
Ezra Pound could recognize an original talent. He tried to take over the newcomer, wined & dined him, tossed him fraternally over his head in a restaurant to demonstrate his prowess at jujitsu, invited him to join the sessions where Pound and other poets like Richard Aldington and Hilda Doolittle rewrote each other's poetry. Pound tried rewriting a Frost verse, announced triumphantly, "Well, I've got you by four syllables. You did it in 53 and I got it down to 49." Frost never even looked. "I'll bet you've spoiled all my nice little...
Reconnaissance. In Cleveland, Mrs. Hilda Hunt, suing for divorce, charged that when her husband rolled in at 4 a.m., he insisted on waking her up and asking whether she was angry...
...Philip Yordan as the story of a Pennsylvania Polish family, the play became a resounding Broadway hit five years ago after it had been adapted for an all-Negro cast by Producer Harry Wagstaff Gribble. The part of Anna, a generous, warmhearted girl gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard, a skin-deep beauty whose chief acting prop is a flirtatious wink...
...HILDA K. FINDLEY...