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...violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger), his son, and the dignified young manager of his radio factory (Jeffrey Lynn), the score is ready for a mildly entertaining melange of melody and misunderstanding...
...field is evenly matched with Jim Herbert, the New York University Negro, facing such tried and true performers as California's Clarence Barnes, Fordham's Wesley Wallace, and Princeton's Paul Douglas. The winner certainly will have to break 48 seconds. Ed Burrowes of Princeton, Dick Belyea of Penn, Lynn Radcliffe of Syracuse, and Max Peters of Penn State are among a powerful group who will challenge Harvard's Captain Lightbody in the 880-yard...
...most clergymen who have been preaching pacifism and U. S. neutrality now favor all help to the Allies short of war. Typical are two Chicago churchmen: Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf and Dr. Louis Leopold Mann, influential rabbi of Sinai Temple. They believed stanchly in the Johnson Act. thought U. S. defense ample. But last week they strongly urged all credit to the Allies, all speed in building U. S. defense...
Kaarlo Valkonen (Alfred Lunt) is a scientist strongly opposed to war. But when war comes on the terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...
Though forceful acting by Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne bolsters up the play, it is actually much more sincere than skillful. It is not Sherwood's art, but the audience's apprehensiveness, that gives "There Shall Be No Night" its grim interest. During periods of world upheaval, an inspired dramatist can sometimes be surpassed by a simple rewrite...