Word: cronins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NORTHERN LIGHT, by A. J. Cronin (308 pp.; Little, Brown: $4), finds Novelist Cronin (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind...
...which she announces her admiration for their paper. Poor Henry is brought to his knees, and to bringing out the Northern Light by duplicating machine. That starts rallying British readers to the underdog, and in the end, after other trials that the reader may endure less readily than Cronin's hero, the Northern Light shines...
...Author Cronin is, as always, on the side of right, and few authors have ever made the right so palatable to so many (total sales of Cronin books in the U.S. alone: 7,000,000 copies). This time, what with tired writing, so lugubrious a hero, and the skimpiest knowledge of newspapers, the right may not be enough...
Both the young wife and the actress are played by the wonderfully versatile Jane Cronin, who shifts from coquettish innocence to sophisticated directness. Edward Zang as the poet, is also outstanding in extracting the most out of probably the best lines in the play. Richard Galvin brings a well-trained talent to the part of the inhibited young gentleman and Roz Faber and Mary Weede give appropriate spirit and mock innocence to their roles...
Election of new SGA officers is scheduled for Feb. 27 and 28. Candidates for president are Jean Cronin '59, Cynthia Morss '59, and Gail Worshofsky '59. Campaigning for vice-president are Patricia Marx '59, Martha Mayo '59, and Nancy Proger...