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Tomorrow the World (Fredric March, Skippy Homeier, Betty Field, Agnes Moorehead; TIME...
Nearly all the supporting performances, especially those of Fredric March, Betty Field, and Agnes Moorhead as a confused spinster, are warm and sympathetic; and young Skippy Homeier captures as remarkably as ever the pathetic, frightening, overtones of the poisoned, pernicious little hero he created on the stage...
...melodrama with a message, Tomorrow the World provokes thought while providing thrills. And its skillful acting -particularly by radio's astonishing twelve-year-old Skippy (George Vincent) Homeier as Emil - makes it passingly plausi ble. But it is ultimately unsatisfying -too unevenly written, too sensationally worked out. With the theater's need for hurry, it makes Emil's rehabilitation seem more a race against time than a question of time...