Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic vote in the Illinois Presidential preference primary was cast for Actress Lillian Gish. Said Chicago Taxi Driver Herman Marks, who wrote in her name: "I did it because she makes everybody happy...
Time has not dealt too kindly with the theatre of the Nineties: it has dubbed once-famous plays hokum, once-famous players hams. But it has never questioned that in Lily Langtry, Lillian Russell, Maxine Elliott, the Nineties produced some of the most breathtakingly beautiful women ever seen on any stage...
Playbills and portraits of Edmund Kean, great nineteenth century actor, will be on display in the Theatre Collection on the top floor of Widener Library for the next few weeks, Mrs. Lillian A. Hall, Custodian of the department, announced yesterday...
That a play can be as great and yet as revolting as "The Little Foxes" is to the credit of Miss Lillian Hellman and a cast which wrung the last ounce of conviction from her lines. It is a bitter and disillusioning play with hardly a note of hope at the end. But it is a play whose construction is hard and compact, whose story never wanders, whose characters are so chiselled that they hurt the conscience. Tallulah Bankhead, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle and the rest are masters of every line and motion their parts could not be conceived...
...first, Patricia Collinge is at the end the most convincing (if that is possible) of them all: her last scene where her memories of plantation youth contrast bitterly with her present drunkenness is an autobiography by itself. Each of the little foxes is perfect; moulded together by Lillian Hellman they make an extraordinary play...