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...limitations. Over a peculiarly topical theme of horror-a prepschool boy falsely accused of homosexuality-Playwright Anderson has draped one of the most steadfastly serviceable of methods. Everything in Tea and Sympathy is very much the stuff, and even the sobstuff, of good matinee drama; and Elia Kazan has staged the play with a lively sense of his opportunities...
...Desire) Kazan, the picture makes good use of its actual German backgrounds and its bizarre circus setting. But the characters are mostly sawdust figures in a stock movie melodrama. Fredric March, as the circus manager and clown tightrope-walker, gives an earnest performance that seems to recall a little too strongly his confused Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Terry Moore as his bareback-riding daughter and Cameron Mitchell as a circus handyman in love with her are merely displaced Hollywood juveniles. Gloria Grahame as the circus manager's sultry young wife and Adolphe Menjou as a secret...
...Skriabins sent their son to the Czarist high school in Kazan. Eventually he made his way to the Polytechnic Institute in far-off St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). Molotov studied Marx, and in a dark, musty cellar pledged his life and liberty to the Bolshevik party. He was 16 and "sentimental"- a "slight, fragile youth," as one of the comrades described him, "with wild hair and a small, pale face lighted with brilliant, myopic eyes burning under a bulging brow...
...more often arty, but that it exposes decadence with decadent means. Lush and sensational, it uses its material as theatrical hootch; it spells out every sentence and then adds exclamation points. Causes are forgotten in the passion for effects; a vision of Hell dwindles into a Grand Guignol. Elia Kazan has directed the play vividly as a theater piece; he doubtless could not help adding glare to what cries out for shade...
Former Spencer lecturers include director Elia Kazan and poet and author T. S. Eliot...