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Stage and screen director Elia Kazan still doesn't know when he'll find the time to deliver this year's Theodore Spencer Foundation Memorial lecture. He told the CRIMSON yesterday that other commitments may keep him from giving the talk when he comes to Boston for the tryout of "Flight into Egypt," the play he is currently directing. The show opens in Boston on March 3, and the New York premiere is set for March...
...Kazan was chosen is December by an English Department faculty committee to give the second lecture in the annual series honoring the late Theodore Spencer, who was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory from 1945 until his death in 1949. Last year, T. S. Eliot '10 lectured on "Poetry and Drama...
When John Steinbeck's screenplay is not dishing up primer politics and flabby moralizing (the unlettered bandit is made to mouth such sentiments as: "I don't want to be the conscience of the world"), Viva Zapata! is good, muscular horse opera. Director Elia Kazan has filled it with vigorous action-horsemen charging, ammunition trains being dynamited and peons fighting. Striking sequence: President Francisco Madero being shot down by the military in the glare of automobile headlights while a siren drowns out his cries...
Best Director: Streetcar's Elia Kazan...
Reached at his New York office, Kazan said he did not know when he would be able to come to Cambridge, but added that "it would probably be in February or March...