Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STRANGE FRUIT-Lillian Smith-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...first some Atlanta bookstores refused to stock the book. Strange Fruit, they charged, was "dirty," its picture of the South was dated. By last week Atlanta booksellers, bug-eyed perhaps at the 22,000-copy first printing (and advance sales of almost 20,000) of Lillian Smith's first novel, had changed their minds, ordered heavily...
...they might ever have had. "The North Star" presents the Hollywood horse opera dressed in new costumes. It's still the story of peaceful, happy Red Gulch taken over by bad hombres, and the finish is pure Tom Mix. All this despite the fact that supposedly gutty and loftist Lillian Hollman wrote the script. The problem is simple. No matter what a picture is about, it must be good as a moving picture, and no tagging on of Russian names is going to help much...
Three Clubmen. Many of their routines are now remembered by Broadway's elder denizens with a nostalgia like their memories of Barrymore's Hamlet or Lillian Russell's corsetry. There was, for example, the team's greeting to customers who were also their personal friends...
...Herald Tribune and the N.Y. Times, 326 citizens of more or less good will invited the nation to follow the newest Communist party line. The occasion: the tenth anniversary of Georgi Dimitrov's epic Reichstag trial. The citizens: a spicy mixture of Earl Browder, Arturo Toscanini, Lillian Hellman. The party line: a united front of "progressives, liberals and democrats" behind Georgi Dimitrov. (Most newspaper readers asked themselves blankly: "Now who the hell...