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THIRTY years ago, when American intellectuals were talking European politics instead of the other way round, some of our better known play-wrights wrote with glaring naivete about countries and people they had no right to understand. Several noteworthy plays issued from this preoccupation-- Robert Sherwood's Idiots' Delight, Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine--but they were marked either by inaccuracy, as in Sherwood's case, or by vagueness, as in Hellman's. The heart of America's fascination with fascism was ignorance, and to be alert and liberal was less than to be knowledgable...
Playwright Lillian Hellman will be a guests of Adams House this Spring and will teach a non-credit course, "A Seminar in Writing," for residents of the House...
Father (Alan Webb) is a curmudgeonly tyrant nearing 80, marching with faltering step and bristling temper into his pitiable dotage. He has sapped the life out of his wife (Lillian Gish), bullied his middle-aged son (Hal Holbrook) into something resembling psychic impotence, and barred his door to a daughter (Teresa Wright) because she married a Jew. Except for the sense of mortality that makes every dying old man a portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries...
...LITTLE FOXES. Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama is in that old-fashioned form, a play with a plot. Mike Nichols draws driving performances from Anne Bancroft, E.G Marshall and George C. Scott as members of a predatory Southern family with taste for pillage...
Toys in the Attic is one of Lillian Hellman's workmanlike psychological geographies. In the New Orleans of another generation she sets two spinster sisters. Carrie Berniers, for reasons unknown, is in love with her younger brother Julian. She has, it is remarked, talked like an old maid since the age of 12. Anna, the elder sister, has taken her mother's place caring for the two younger children. Her reasons are not known...