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...There Shall Be No Night" (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by The Playwrights'Company and The Theatre Guild). In a timely and indignant mood Robert Sherwood has dramatized the story of the invasion of Finland. He has dramatized it simply, in terms of what happens to one Finnish family-a Nobel-Prize-winner, his U. S.-born wife, their youthful son. There is not very much action, most of the play consists of speeches-some of them eloquent, some inflammatory, some confused...
...letter was forwarded to Helsinki, Finand where Mr. and Mrs. Tihany had been staying. But by the time it was forwarded, they had returned to Cambridge and the letter remained in the Finnish capital, probably in the hands of censorship authorities...
...short of war. It claims that the President, being in touch with confidential State Department cables, sees enough danger in the possibility of a Nazi victory to go ahead full blast with economic aid to the Allies. Thus he has repealed the arms embargo, denounced the dictatorships, and interned Finnish, Norwegian, and Danish credit to keep it away from Germany. We can see what the President has done, but he won't tell us why he has done it. He has never stated exactly what stake, political and economic, this country has in an Allied victory. He has not said...
With the failure of Alan Gottlieb's referendum for an A.S.U. condemnation of Stalin's Finnish rape comes a crisis in the affairs of the Harvard Student Union. Will it cling to the coattails of discredited fellow members in the Communist-dominated American Student Union? Or will it cut loose from the national body and steer by its own star...
Playing on a borrowed Guarnerius at small concerts, Violinist Haitto has raised some $12,000 for the Finnish Relief Fund, has engagements through mid-May. He has learned some English, likes U. S. oranges, Mickey Rooney, skating in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center rink...