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...creative world is suffering from a stifling malady, Elia Kazan told an audience of more than 1,000 people in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon. Delivering the second annual Theodore Spencer Lecture, the noted stage and cinema director declared that over-sensitivity to the Communist threat has created a problem which hampers theatrical practitioners at the very roots of their work...
...April, Harry T. Levin, professor of English and a member of the invitation committee announced that Kazan's schedule would permit him to appear...
...graduate of Williams, Kazan studied drama at Yale and began his dramatic career in 1932. He appeared in many stage plays, including "Waiting for Lefty" the "Golden Boy" and staged many others. Including "Skin of Our Teeth" and "One Touch of Venus...
...Kazan directed both the mage and screen productions of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He was awarded an Oscar" in 1947 for his direction of Gentleman's Agreement." Other screen plays he has directed include "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Viva Zapata...
Late in December, an invitation committee first asked Kazan to appear. Broadway and Hollywood commitments prevented him from setting a definite date, however, and Kazan declined the invitation with regret...