A Longfellow poem & a Lillian Hellman play about a girls' boarding school share this timely title
[DOC] [TLE] Local Theatre Review: The Children's Hour at Little Theatre of ... [PAR] Jun 3, 2016 ... Why Lillian Hellman would choose to name her 1934 stage play after the title of 
the poem seems puzzling, since the subject matter is far from idyllic.