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Cornelia 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.VVTHEN the New York Drama ™ Critics* Circle met in early May to vote for the best play of the 1943-44 season Lillian Heilman's •The Searching Wind'1 polled seven votes, its nearest rival, 'The Voice of the Turtle/’ but two. Miss 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 Herald-Trlbune, called The Searching Wind” ’'far and away the best play of tbe season; com* mdntator Walter Wlnchell wrote of it* Lillian Heilman has again chiseled a monument to glory. This dramatic thunderbolt left the first night audience limp/* while the World-Telegram's Burton Rascoe ■aid. ” ’The Searching Wind’ is not only MIbb Heilman's finest achievement In the theatre, but one of thefinest things by any playrlght Inmany seasons.Herman Sbumlln has staged and produced The Searching Wind/’ a dual Bervfce which he similarly performed for her earlier plays, The Childrens Hour/' The Little 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 tbe most successful of Miss Heilman's plays, a capacity bit ever since its opening at the FultonTheatre In early April. It covers twenty-two yearB in the lives of its characters, with scenes in Washington, Rome, Berlin and Paris, points out with passion and eloquence the follieB of those statesmen who have brought humanityto the edge of disaster.Uncle Ah says a large part of the i Systematic spraying has become a
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Brewster Standard
Brewster, New York, US
Thu, Aug 03, 1944
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