Stage and screen director Elia Kazan will not deliver the Theodore Spencer Memorial lecture this spring. Harry Levin, professor of English and a member of the Memorial Foundation's invitation committee, announced last night that the group had withdrawn its invitation to Kazan. Another speaker will be chosen "within the next few weeks," he declared.
Levin pointed out that the lecture is not necessarily an annual affair, and that plans for a second talk this spring had already been made before the cancellation of Kazan's talk. He said he regretted that the prize-winning director of Hollywood's "Streetcar Named Desire" and Broadway's "Death of a Salesman" was too busy with his professional work to come to Cambridge.
Kazan was slated to be the second man to speak in a series of Foundation lectures in honor of the late Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. T. S. Eliot '10 gave last year's lecture.
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