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Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will deliver the second Theodore Spencer Memorial Foundation lecture on Wednesday, May 14, in New Lecture Hall, Harry T. Levin, professor of English, announced yesterday...
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 expressed regret that his commitments prevented an appearance at that time...
According to Levin, who is a member of the invitation committee, Kazan has not yet chosen a title for his lecture. Levin said, however, that Kazan will probably speak on "the public aspect of the film, or perhaps the relation of the arts to free speech...
...Kazan was awarded an "Oscar" in 1947 for his direction of "Gentleman's Agreement...
Hollywood and Broadway have long suspected that brilliant Stage & Screen Director Elia Kazan (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) had once been a Communist, along with some other members of New York's now defunct pink-arty Group Theater. The professional martyr-makers were, as always, ready to cry persecution. But last January, in a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan admitted that he had in fact been a party member for 18 months from 1934 to 1936. In that confession-no word of which reached the public-Kazan stubbornly refused to name...