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...tense moments of writing, in individual scenes, Flight into Egypt becomes vivid and even terrifying. Elia Kazan's direction is forceful, and as the suffering husband & wife, Paul Lukas and Gusti Huber give fine, telling performances. But the play falls far short of significant drama. It clearly concerns not just the plight of refugees, but the question of their always being foreigners, and the corruption that menaces them in a foreign land. Yet even while it interlaces these three themes, the play at bottom rests on none of them; at bottom it is pure domestic drama-the anguished struggle...
...Lili Engel's character than to any coherent story. Their own character are sketchily drawn; one--a hunchback doctor by the name of Ghoulos--makes no sense at all. Except for Freund, a Viennese merchant convincingly portrayed by Paul Mann, these minor characters generally overact, perhaps because Director Elia Kazan feels the need of sharp contrast to the complexity of Mrs. Engel...
Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will not deliver the Theodore Spencer Memorial lecture this spring. Harry Levin, professor of English and a member of the Memorial Foundation's invitation committee, announced last night that the group had withdrawn its invitation to Kazan. Another speaker will be chosen "within the next few weeks," he declared...
Levin pointed out that the lecture is not necessarily an annual affair, and that plans for a second talk this spring had already been made before the cancellation of Kazan's talk. He said he regretted that the prize-winning director of Hollywood's "Streetcar Named Desire" and Broadway's "Death of a Salesman" was too busy with his professional work to come to Cambridge...
...Kazan was slated to be the second man to speak in a series of Foundation lectures in honor of the late Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. T. S. Eliot '10 gave last year's lecture...