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...Eliot '10 gave the first lecture, in 1951, on "Poetry and Drama." Last spring, stage and screen director Elia Kazan gave the second on "Show Business and the Realities...
...Editors of the CRIMSONS: A short time ago a great many Harvard students and professors attended the second Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture given by the Broadway and Hollywood director Elia Kazan. From the title of the lecture ("Show Business and the Realities") and from Prof. Levin's introductory remarks ("bridge the gap between drama on the page and drama on the stage"), they must have expected a firsthand account of the problems of directing and staging some of the best movies and plays of recent years. Instead they were treated to a public shrift and absolution. Interspiced with a running...
...performance was in many respects disappointing Despite Mr. Kazan's claim to the passing friendship with Theodore Spencer, we feel that Spencer would not have tolerated the lectureship the ghost would have walked out. Secondly if the lectureship was instituted to give Harvard the privilege of hearing top men in the theater talk about the drama, then Mr. Kazan's lecture was out of place. If the lectures were meant to include the subject of Art and Society ("Show Business and the Realities"), again Mr. Kazan's lecture did not fill the bill. He seems to have used the lecture...
...omen: "If we find it is impossible to preserve the body, we'll have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body secretly cremated. The body that hundreds of the faithful now patiently queue to see, says Author Svanidze, is a fake...
Following the talk, Kazan was honored at a reception at the Signet Society