The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1939

The Little Foxes (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) is the season's most tense and biting drama—as tense and biting as was Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour. From the Song of Solomon comes the title: "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . ." Study of a rapacious Southern family on the make at the turn of the century, The Little Foxes catches the Hubbards—who by sharp bargaining and hard ways have achieved small-town prosperity—on the point of becoming heel-grinding, big-time industrialists.

Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is...

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