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...kind of grown-up version of the brat in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Evelyn is no less fiendish but much less frightening. In fact, so much effort is lavished on what she does, and so little on how cleverly she does it, that she ends up by being not frightening but fantastic. The authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Dorothy Gish, ill of gall-bladder trouble, dropped out of the Life With Father cast touring the Northwest. Sister Lillian flew west from Manhattan to take over Mother's role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Raps | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...propaganda plays produced in New York since the outbreak of the war in 1939, the only one that has approached this broader implication, while still retaining a sound statement of the German menace, is Lillian Hellman's "Watch On the Rhine," and it hasn't a single Nazi...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

Watch on the Rhine (TIME, April 14). Lillian Hellman's passionate anti-Nazi drama, winner of last year's Critics' Circle award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...program last week commemorated the first transcontinental network show ever heard in the U.S. It ran four hours on the night of Nov. 15, 1926. Among the performers then were Weber & Fields, Mary Garden, Will Rogers. Hollywood contributed that year such prizes as Dorothy and Lillian Gish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Mark on the Doorjamb | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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