Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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KILLERS OF THE DREAM (256 pp.)-Lillian Smith-Norton...
...When Lillian Smith was a little girl in the deep South, a new Negro family moved to town. With the family came Janie, its adopted white-skinned child. Janie disturbed white folks. "They must have kidnaped her," said one of the ladies in Mrs. Smith's club...
Spurred by righteous clubwomen, the town marshal took Janie away from her foster parents and brought her to the generous Smiths, who let her share Lillian's room, clothes and toys. But one day, after a phone call from an orphanage, Lillian was told Janie would have to leave...
...Lunts. Harvard Square's local thespians have imported Luise Rainer this week to spice up their production of Chekov's "The Sea Gull" at the Brattle Theater Company next to the post office. "Regina" winds up its Boston stay on Saturday also, as the Colonial sends this adaption of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" on to new territories...
Marc Blitzstein, under a Koussevitzky commission, found these in "The Little-Foxes" by Lillian Hellman, and he calls the product "Regina." The play deals with a decadent, bickering Southern family which breaks to pieces over an unscrupulous money deal. The composer has worked into this a ball with many Southern belles and several appearances of singing and playing Negroes. In general the music effectively increases the tension, though, with a lack of variation in the first act which is exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices...