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...M.G.M.) is an all-out Hollywood jihad to save Fay Bainter's soul for the New Deal. Cinemactress Bainter impersonates the widow of an anti-New Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid...
This strange story and its performance (it is billed as "the American Mrs. Miniver") fit each other like gloves without hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note...
...more serious students of the issue, about three study groups will be set up this fall, more intense than those which operated last summer. Prominent members of the Faculty--such men as Professor Payson Wild and Professor Sidney B. Fay worked with the committees in the past--aid these groups with their opinions, and independent research is carried on by sub-committee members...
Sidney B. Fay '92, professor of History, will act as moderator in a discussion where the various committee chairmen will present reports of their recent activities in a meeting of the Harvard Council on Post-War Problems at the Lowell House Junior Common Room tonight at 8 o'clock. Professor Fay will answer questions...
Professor Sydney B. Fay. Council on Post-war Problems. Lowell Junior Common Room, 8 o'clock...