Arts and Manners

Miss Hellman ‘s Cynical “Candide”

If Miss Lillian. Hellman will pardon the expression, she is no Voltaire. Now there is no reason on earth why a live lady should be measured by the faculties of a very dead wizard. But the trouble is that Miss Hellman stubbornly insists on such unbecoming comparisons by submitting Candide, for critical appraisal, as “a comic operetta.”