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Another Part of the Forest, Lillian Hellman's sequel to The Little Foxes (though it takes place 20 years before the first play) continues at the Loeb, at least until tomorrow. At 8 p.m. tonight and at 5 and 9 Saturday. Tickets $5.50 and $6.50, $1 off for Harvard-affiliated people, and $3.75 for students...
...apply the same sort of reasoning to the life and work of Lillian Hellman, you might be inclined to think that her play Another Part of the Forest, which is playing at the Loeb tonight through Saturday, lacks the ring of truth. Who can believe a family in which the father is an utterly heartless tyrant, artfully manipulated by his sinister Southern belle of a daughter but so resented by his sons that one of them ends up robbing him at gunpoint? This is not to say that Hellman has drawn the dialogue verbatim from her own family dinner table...
Almost everybody who knew Carson felt that friendship with her was an act of survival. "Carson burdened everyone who got close to her," Lillian Hellman complained. "I always felt Carson was a destroyer," concluded Elizabeth Bowen. As for Carson herself, she seemed "indestructible"-in the almost despairing word of her husband Reeves McCullers (who killed himself in a Paris hotel room after 16 years of marriage...
Another Part of the Forest. Not quite up to the level of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, although it contains many of the same characters. Still worth seeing, though. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and July 21-26 at 8, except Saturdays...
Another Part of the Forest. Anyone familiar with Lillian Hellman's work will not want to miss this, and anyone unfamiliar with it should probably take this opportunity to remedy the situation. This play, written nine years after The Little Foxes, resumes the story of the loveable Hubbard family and its tale of passion, intrigue, fear and loathing. Opens Wednesday at the Loeb at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets brought in advance and student rush tickets...