Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montserrat, which enjoyed a brief Broadway run last year in an English adaptation by Lillian Hellman, hammers hard against the brutal Spanish tyranny that Bolivar battled to overthrow. (Sample: "You live under the domination of men who are ferocious and pitiless. Do you have no pride? Do you not want to rebel against assassins?") Members of the audience, all of whom had been living for 18 months under a state of siege imposed by the Conservative government, loudly applauded every reference to liberty. One man even rose and shouted, "Viva la libertad...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Birth of the Movies. Narrator: Lillian Gish...
...Lillian Helman, another powerful voice out of the recent past, has a now drama at the Coronet at 49th Street. The Autumn Garden stars Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jane Wyatt, and Kent Smith. Movie star Olivia de Havilland is leading a company of Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst, on 44th...
...Autumn Garden (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is a strikingly new kind of Lillian Hellman play. The plot is not at all striking and is secondary to the people; the people are pretty average people, neither vipers nor vixens. The scene is the South-an elegant summer boarding house run by a wellborn, middle-aged spinster. The guests are largely people of her own generation and kind-fiberless, frustrated people: a quiet, cynical drinker who has never married; a quiet-seeking general married to a fool; a confused young man halfheartedly about to marry the spinster...
...Sample Seraphs: Katherine Grimm (secretary to General Foods' Colby M. Chester), Naoma Lowensohn (Publisher Roy W. Howard), Louise MacLeod (Adman Bruce Barton), Mary R Davis (Lowell Thomas), Marguerite Shepherd (Eddie Rickenbacker), Lillian Rosse (Thomas E Dewey...