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CriticsCornelia Otla Skinner In a scene from The Searching Wind/' Lillian Heilman's vivid and exciting play which has been the season’s outstand Ing dramatic hit since Its opening at the Fulton Theatre last April.TV/HEN the New York Drama ™ Critics* Circle met in early May to vote for the best play of the 1943*44 season Lillian Hellman'a •The Searching Wind** polled seven votes, Its nearest rival, 'The Voice of the Turtle/' but two. MIbs Heilman and her play failed of the award only because four critics refrained from voting, thus denying The Searching Wind the necessary majority,Howard Barnes, critic for the Herld-Trlbune, called The Searching Wind *'far and away the best play of the season; com* mdntator Walter Wlnchell wrote of it* Lillian Heilman has againchiseled a monument to glory. This dramatic thunderbolt left the first night audience limp/' while the World-Telegram's Burton Rascoe said. 'The Searching Wind’ is not only MIbb Heilman's finest achievement In the theatre, but one of thefinest thlngB by any playrlght Inmany seasons.**Herman Shumlfn has staged and produced The Searching Wind/’ a dual Bervfce which he similarly per* formed for her earlier plays, The Children's Hour, The Utile Foxes'* and Watch on the Rhine, The cast which plays The Searching Wind’* is tri-starred* Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dennis King and Dudley Digges, with Barbara O’Neil and Montgomery Clift giving vivid supporting characterisations.The Searching Wind” is by all odds the most successful of MIbb Heilman’s plays, a capacity bit ever since Its opening at the Fulton Theatre in early April. It covers twenty-two yearB in the lives of itscharacters, with scenes in Washington, Rome, Berlin and Paris, points out with passion and eloquence the follies of tbOBe statesmen who have brought humanity to the edge of disaster.
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Brewster Standard
Brewster, New York, US
Thu, Aug 03, 1944
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