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...Angeles' Beachwood Theater Studio holds 73 people. By last week it was shoe-horning in 85 every night-most of them Hollywood's great. Its unpaid, unprofessional performers had a thundering hit on their hands, a vivid war play called Cry Havoc which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has snagged for $10,000 and the Shuberts have snatched for Broadway...
Written by 35-year-old, Canadian-born Allan Kenward, an M.G.M. director of shorts, Cry Havoc has an all-female cast, tells of volunteer nurses huddled for weeks in a bomb shelter on Bataan. Its minimum of plot deals with the Fifth-Column finaglings of one of them. But Cry Havoc does not need much plot: it points a fierce picture of driving war, provides a grim drama of doomed women...
Pink-cheeked Playwright Kenward has drifted about the West Coast for years, acting, teaching, directing. Visualizing women's role in modern war, he wrote Cry Havoc (the title comes from Julius Caesar: "Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!") nearly three years ago with a different setting, shelved it, rewrote it after Bataan...
Douglas A20 (Boston or Havoc)-a light (two-engine, air-cooled) bomber widely used by the British in the European and Egyptian theaters. Flexible in its performance, it has also been employed with modifications as a heavy fighter. It is unquestionably one of the best in its class...
...Profane. The strongest impression communicated by December 7 is that the Japanese attack, coming when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed...