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...Rhys M. Sale, president of Ford Motor Co. of Canada: "I want to see the people of Canada wide awake to the fact [that] we are living in a tinder-dry world in which a gigantic fire is raging and dangerously near to being out of control. . . In the arsenals of every land behind the Iron Curtain, the sweating slaves of Communism are beating out the weapons for world conquest . . . World War III is here. It is going on right now. The thinking people . . . are prepared to face the cold, hard truth...
This is one of MGM's English Specials, and the studio's British stable (Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams), accomplished actors all, help it out a good deal. Walter Pidgeon is not very happily cast as Sabre, but he succeeds in making a solid character of him. Britain's Deborah Kerr by now seems thoroughly at home in Hollywood, both as a beauty and an actress; but she is wasted in such a role. Angela Lansbury does a good, straight job in her "unpleasant" role. Janet Leigh deserves much better parts...
Probably most intriguing to the U.S. reader are the rich specimens mined from out-of-the-way pockets of the British isles. If E. Glyn Lewis' essay on Welsh literature and Rhys Davies' rich, Chaucerian story about a sin-hunting minister are at all representative, this section is having a lively cultural revival. Precisely why this nook of the world should be so awake when so many other parts of it are dozing will prove a neat problem for some future historian...
...proved to the average man that religious plays need not be boring. It got the chance during the war, when Browne directed a band of professionals called the Pilgrim Players. Community groups got interested in their morale-builders-Murder in the Cathedral, Geoffrey Whiteworth's Father Noah, Ernest Rhys's The Deluge-decided to do something themselves. Sheffield led the way. In 1943 its interdenominational Association of Christian Communities hired a professional actress as dramatic adviser, has since organized plays with groups varying from mothers' unions to tough boys' clubs in the slums...
Died. Ernest Rhys (rhymes with lease), 86, bewhiskered British poet and essayist, creator of the famed Everyman's Library, which gave the common man cheap editions of Homer, Aristotle, Mark Twain and some 500 other authors; in London...