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...hard to discern the parallels here, almost to see the play as a kind of roman a clef. The weak, frightened character who appears both as the mother of the Hubbard family. Lavinia, and as a neighbor named Birdie Bag try, a young flower wilting on the broken vine of old Southern aristocracy, seems to be drawn from Hellman's own mother, the former Julia Newhouse. Like Living, whose one fixed idea throughout the play is to embark on her "mission" to teach "the little colored children." Julia constantly took refuge in religion, mouthing the words to prayers or ducking...
Another Part of the Forest, like Hellman's earlier play The Little Foxes, concerns the Hubbard family of Alabama, a nouveau riche, money-hungry bunch in which the strong make a practice of destroying the weak. In choosing the subject, Hellman has gone beyond her immediate roots--divided between New York and New Orleans--to the more remote history of her mother's clan, the New houses, an Alabama banking family who had moved to New Orleans and whose squabbles Hellman witnessed as a child at Sunday dinner...
...angry comedy is what seems to have been overlooked by most critics and audiences of Hellman's plays. The Little Foxes, which was written in 1939 as the first play in a Hubbard family trilogy, was a great success, but Hellman felt it had been misinterpreted, taken too seriously. In 1946, Hellman writes in Pentimento. "I believed that I could now make clear that I had meant the first play as a kind of satire. I tried to do that in Another Part of the Forest, but what I thought was funny or outrageous the critics thought straight stuff: what...
Another Part of the Forest. Anyone familiar with Lillian Hellman's work will not want to miss this, and anyone unfamiliar with it should probably take this opportunity to remedy the situation. This play, written nine years after The Little Foxes, resumes the story of the loveable Hubbard family and its tale of passion, intrigue, fear and loathing. Opens Wednesday at the Loeb at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets brought in advance and student rush tickets...
...were feted in the proceedings. Phi Beta Kappa inducted five honorary members by a three-quarters vote of the group during a private meeting. The honoraries included Robert Tonis, retiring chief of Harvard police; Richard S. Aldrich '25, a producer: Robert E Blye '50, a poet: Dr. John Perry Hubbard '25, the president of the National Board of Medical Examiners: and Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science...