ABSTRACT
reviewing a new film , The Children's Hour (1961), that had just opened at two Manhattan cinemas, a Mew York Times (MTT) reviewer had this to say:
It is hard to believe that Lillian Heilman's famous stage play, “The Children's Hour” [sic] could have aged into such a cultural antique in the course of three decades as it looks in the new film version of it that came to the Astor and the Trans-Lux fifty-second street yesterday. But here it is, fidgeting and fuming, like some dotty old doll in bombazine with her mouth sagging open in shocked amazement at the whispered hint that a couple of female schoolteachers could be attached to each other by an “unnatural” love. (NYT, 28 March 1962)
