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...Oregon the big strawberry crop was at harvest peak last week. With 27,000 pickers needed, the State was 4,000 shy. In Portland 280 ministers appealed from their pulpits for men to help save the crop; high schools dismissed children of relief families so that they could go into the fields. The State employment service sought workers with broadcasts over five radio stations, handbills in stores and pool halls, a banner-plastered automobile which went roaring over the State...
What pained Eire most last week was incipient hunger. Rationed already to a beggarly half an ounce of tea a week, and with white bread scarce, Eire is faced with even stricter rationing until harvest time, unless she can get wheat and foodstuffs that she has purchased...
...fifth in its current series of six productions in Boston, the Theatre Guild has chosen Sophie Treadwell's "Hope for a Harvest" and headed the bill with man and wife, Fredric March and Florence Eldridge. Of the two decisions, the casting one is the happier;-"Hope for a Harvest" presents the spectacle of a mediocre piece of writing admirably exploited within its narrow limits by a popular cast...
...squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified by her determination to overcome the forces which have laid Europe open to dictatorship, she puts an erring girl on the straight and narrow and shames a defeated peach-grower into new life and hope for a harvest...
...headed by that of the Italian truck-grower, Alan Reed. Despite its deficiencies in depth--by no means an uncommon failing of play writing in this confused age when most authors seem either unable or afraid to go to the heart of the questions they ask--"Hope for a Harvest" is certainly not an unpleasant evening. With the assistance of a good share of varied talent it should go Marching along well into the end of the season...