Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Huber placed Shapley's name with those of Paul Robeson, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, and other "well-known figures...
Regina (written & composed by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Clinton Wilder) sets Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes to music. As music, it is more clever than distinguished; as drama, it is clearly a littler Foxes. But on its own terms-and they are wisely very much its own-it is an exhilarating and enjoyable show...
...Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith explained why so much Southern writing is so good: "It's because people there have suffered more...
Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...
...asked Lillian. "Because Janie is a little colored girl," replied her mother. It was an answer Lillian could not understand and, when she grew up, would not accept...