A Difficult Woman (69 page)

41
Ralph Warner, “On Broadway,”
Daily Worker
(April 27, 1944): 8.

42
Burton Rascoe, “Has Miss Hellman Disappointed the Party?”
New York World-Telegram
(April 22, 1944): 27.

43
Ibid.

44
Stark Young, “Behind the Beyond,”
New Republic
(May 1, 1944): 604.

45
Hellman, “The Art of the Theater I,” 85

46
Sam Sillen, “Lillian Hellman's
Another Part of the Forest
,”
Daily Worker
(November 25, 1946): 11.

47
Brooks Atkinson, “The Play in Review,”
New York Times
(November 21, 1946): 42.

48
John Mason Brown, “And Cauldron Bubble,”
Saturday Review
29 (December 14, 1946): 21, 23

49
Kappo Phelan, “Another Part of the Forest,”
Commonweal
45 (December 6, 1946): 202.

50
Joseph Wood Krutch, “Drama,”
Nation
163 (December 7, 1946): 671.

51
John Chapman, “
Another Part of the Forest
Makes
The Little Foxes
a Mere Warmup,”
New York Daily News
(November 21, 1946): 67.

52
LH to Arthur Kober, c. 1935, box 1, folder 2, Arthur Kober Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI.

53
Fred Gardner, “An Interview with Lillian Hellman,” in Jackson Bryer, ed.,
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
(Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986), 119.

54
Richard Watts Jr., “Miss Hellman's New Play is Fascinating Drama,”
New York Post
(November 21, 1946): 40.

55
Joseph Wood Krutch, “Drama,”
Nation
(December 7, 1946): 671.

56
John Chapman, “
Another Part of the Forest,
” 67.

57
Jacob Adler,
Lillian Hellman
(Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughn Company, 1969), 42

58
Richard Watts, “Lillian Hellman's New Play is Fascinating Drama,” 40.

59
Millie Barringer, “Lillian Hellman Standing in the Minefields,”
New Orleans Review
(Spring 1988): 64.

60
Stephanie de Pue, “Lillian Hellman: She Never Turns Down an Adventure,” in Bryer, ed.,
Conversations
, 186.

61
Kappo Phelan, “
Another Part of the Forest
,” 201–2.

62
Hardwick, “The Little Foxes Revived,”
New York Review of Books
(December 21, 1967): 4.

63
Lillian Hellman, “An Interview with Tito,”
New York Star
(November 8, 1948): 1, 8. Additional pieces in this series appeared on November 4, 5, 7, 9, and 10, 1948.

64
“The Theater: New Play in Manhattan,”
Time
(November 7, 1949): 37; “‘Mont-serrat'” Adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman,”
New York Times
(October 31, 1949): 25; Howard Taubman, “Lillian Hellman Play Revived at the Gate,”
New York Times
(January 9, 1961): 17.

65
Hellman,
Pentimento
, 198.

66
“The Autumn Garden,”
Commonweal
53 (April 6, 1951): 645.

67
Robert Coleman, “Autumn Garden Harps on Depressing Theme,”
Daily Mirror
(March 8, 1951): 32.

68
“The First Team Takes Over,”
New Yorker
(March 17, 1971): 52.

69
John Beaufort, “Openings on Broadway,”
Christian Science Monitor
(March 17, 1951): 6.

70
Harold Clurman, “Lillian Hellman's Garden,”
New Republic
(March 26, 1951): 21–22.

71
Lillian Hellman, “Typescript: Connecticut College,” January 9, 1952, box 43, folder 1, 1, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

72
Ibid., 2.

73
Hellman, “Typescript: Swarthmore.”

74
Lillian Hellman, “Typescript: Smith/MIT,” April 15, 18, 1955, box 43, folder 1, 1, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

75
Lillian Hellman, handwritten note on notecard, box 43, folder 2, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

76
Lillian Hellman, “Typescript: Harvard Lecture No 2,” 4.

77
Eric Bentley, “Hellman's Indignation,”
New Republic
(January 5, 1953): 31.

78
Hellman,
Pentimento
, 202.

79
Quoted in Stewart H. Benedict, “Anouilh in America,”
Modern Language Journal
45 (December 1961): 342.

80
Lillian Hellman, undated/untitled typescript (probably an early draft of her introduction to
The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
), box 43, folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

81
Lillian Hellman, ed.,
The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
(New York Farrar, Straus and Company, 1955), ix.

82
Ibid., xi.

83
Ibid., x.

84
Lillian Hellman, undated early typescript of notes toward an introduction to the letters of Anton Chekhov, box 43, folder 6, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

85
Robert Lethbridge, “Introduction,” Emile Zola,
Germinal
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1943), vii.

86
Richard G. Stern, “Lillian Hellman on Her Plays,”
Contact
3 (1959): 119.

87
Lillian Hellman, typescript: draft of
Candide
: “The Inquisition, Part One,” box 9, folder 5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

88
Quoted in Arthur Gelb, “Lillian Hellman Has Play Ready,”
New York Times
(November 9, 1959): 35.

89
Weidman, “Lillian Hellman Reflects upon the Changing Theater,”
Dramatists Guild Quarterly
7 (Winter 1970): 22.

90
Mary McCarthy, “The Reform of Dr. Pangloss,”
New Republic
(December 17, 1956): 30.

91
Hellman,
Toys in the Attic
in
Collected Plays
, 758.

92
Jacob Adler, “Miss Hellman's Two Sisters,”
Educational Theatre Journal
15 (May 1963): 117; Austin Pendleton, interview by author, December 12, 2009, confirms this judgment.

93
Walter Kerr, “It's Gone About as Far as It Can Go,”
Los Angeles Times
(April 21, 1963): N29.

94
Hellman, “Typescript: Harvard Lecture No. 1,” 2.

95
Hellman, “Typescript: Connecticut College,” 1.

96
Irving Drutman, “Hellman: A Stranger in the Theater?”
New York Times
(February 27, 1966): 11.

97
Lillian Hellman, undated note in preparation of publication of
The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
.

98
Transcript from interviews by Gary Waldhorn and Robert Murray, “Yale Reports,” June 5, 1966, box 30, folder 10, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

99
Gelb, “Lillian Hellman Has Play Ready,” 35.

100
Gretchen Cryer, “Where Are the Women Playwrights?”
New York Times
(May 20, 1973): 129.

101
Lillian Hellman, typescript with handwritten corrections of work that later
appeared in
Pentimento
, no date, box 31, folder 16, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

102
Marilyn Berger, “Profile, Lillian Hellman,” in Bryer, ed.,
Conversations
, 267.

103
Waldhorn and Murray, “Yale Reports.”

104
Thomas Meehan, “Q: Miss Hellman, What's Wrong with Broadway? A: It's a Bore,” in Bryer, ed.,
Conversations
, 45–46.

105
Lillian Hellman. “Typescript: Swarthmore.”

106
Gardner, “An Interview with Lillian Hellman,” 115.

107
Stern, “Lillian Hellman on Her Plays,” 119.

108
Adler, “Miss Hellman's Two Sisters,” 117

109
Walter Kerr, “The Theater of Say It! Show It! What Is It?”
New York Times
(September 1, 1968): 10.

110
Lillian Hellman, “Scotch on the Rocks,”
New York Review of Books
(October 17, 1963): 6.

111
Drutman, “Hellman: A Stranger in the Theater?” 11.

112
Hardwick, “The Little Foxes Revived,” 4.

113
“Preserve us all, when friendship tires like this,” wrote Penelope Gilliatt in response. See Penelope Gilliatt, “Lark Pie,”
New York Review of Books
(February 1, 1968): 9. For other examples of this exchange, see Edmund Wilson, “An open letter to Mike Nichols,”
New York Review of Books
(January 4, 1968); Richard Poirier, “To the Editor,”
New York Review of Books
(January 18, 1968); Felicia Montealegre, “Raising Hellman,”
New York Review of Books
(January 18, 1968).

1
Peter Feibleman, interview by author, August 4, 2002.

2
Ibid.

3
Morris and Lore Dickstein, interview by author, March 24, 2005.

4
Lillian Hellman,
Pentimento
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1973), 164–65.

5
Lucius Beebe, “An Adult's Hour is Miss Hellman's Next Effort,”
New York Herald Tribune
(December 13, 1936): 2.

6
LH to Arthur Kober, no date, box 73, folder 2, William Miller Abrahams Papers, M1125, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

7
She paid off the mortgage in January 1942.

8
Stanley Isaacs to LH, March 2, 1945, box 66, folder 6, Lillian Hellman Collection,
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. The initial rent on the apartment was $4,000 a month, a hefty sum in 1945 and one that the Office of Price Administration initially contested (Irving Schwartzkopf to Office of Price Administration, September 11, 1945, box 66 folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC).

9
LH to Rabbi Feibelman, November 13, 1941, and Julian Feibelman to LH, November 5, 1941, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

10
LH to Jack Warner, March 9, 1943, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

11
This and the following quotes are from Jack Warner to LH, March 12, 1943, and LH to Jack Warner, March 24, 1943, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

12
LH to Audio Subscriptions, Inc., July 19, 1942, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine/Correspondence and Statements” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

13
LH to Bennett Cerf, July 5, 1944, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine/Correspondence and Statements” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

14
LH to Hal Keith, August 27, 1946, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine/Correspondence and Statements” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

15
LH to Bennett Cerf, November 8, 1943, “Watch on the Rhine/Correspondence and Statements” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

16
LH to Mr. Jelinek, July 12, 1947, “Watch on the Rhine/Correspondence and Statements” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

17
William Abrahams, notes, box 77, folder 1, William Miller Abrahams Papers, SUL.

18
Lillian Hellman, schedule of securities, December 31, 1944, box 103, folder 9, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

19
Dashiell Hammett to LH, April 5, 1944, box 77, folder 8, William Miller Abrahams Papers, SUL. See also Dashiell Hammett to LH, January 8, 1944, box 77, folder 8 and Dashiell Hammett to Nancy Bragdon, June 4, 1944, box 77, folder 6, William Miller Abrahams Papers, SUL.

20
Edith Kean to LH, March 24, 1951, box 91, “Watch on the Rhine (Tax matters, 1951)” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

21
Copy of the ad from the
New York Times
, August 1951, box 65, folder 1, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

22
Katherine Brown to LH, August 23, 1951, box 53, folder 52, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC. Letters that follow are September 1, 1951, and October 12, 1951, box 53, folder 52, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

23
LH to Losey, February 5, 1953, box 5, folder 6, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC. Losey apparently held no grudge. Twenty years later, he asked Hellman
to write a script from Conrad's
The Secret Sharer
. Hellman was intrigued but ultimately refused. Joe Losey to LH, June 30, 1972, and LH to Joseph Losey, July 18, 1972, box 3, “June–November, 1972” folder, Harold Matson Company, Inc. (New York, NY) Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY.