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...herself to the caliber of the center ring. Carrying a large plumed fan and wearing golden shoes, she is the new star of the traditional aerial ballet-one of the circus' four production numbers-and people of the circus have already compared her with the late, indubitably great Lillian Leitzel, who died 26 years ago in a fall in Copenhagen...
...philosophy of nonviolent, direct action has acted as a catalyst in stimulating the internal changes that are slowly occurring in the minds of the white Southerner. The philosophy contains a "strange love" which, as Lillian Smith has said, "reminds us that we must find a new way of relating ourselves not only to each other but to reality itself, to the times we live in, to ultimate concerns." Throughout his young life, Martin Luther King has sought to change the Old South with this "strange love," to bring about the day when men of his race can speak truly...
...Litchfield has now spent or earmarked some $126 million for ambitious expansion-and rubbed raw nerves all over town and gown. Spending freely, he has literally taken over the city's Oakland area, buying up the Pittsburgh Pirates' Forbes Field and the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married. He now aims to super develop Oakland into a vast cultural center costing $250 million...
Snow's The Affair, which had a good run last season as adapted for the London stage by Ronald Millar, now comes to New York (Sept. 20). How Much? is Lillian Hellman's new play, an adaptation of a novel about an old woman whose family is energetically trying to ship her off to a nursing home forever (February...
Picking up characters just when external events promise a crisis can make a writer's job easier because it guarantees a dramatic situation. In Autumn Garden, Lillian Hellman does not depend on circumstantial crisis. Instead she has placed ten people in a once-fashionable home outside New Orleans, and lets them develop the play by well-exposed attempts to define their relationships and to regear their lives. Almost everyone fails; only a European girl, Sophie, is young and tough enough to extricate herself...