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Three boats were entered from each college. The Crimson sailing trio was composed of Finn Ferner, roger Willcox, and Report Sherwood...
...There Shall Be No Night" (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by The Playwrights'Company and The Theatre Guild). In a timely and indignant mood Robert Sherwood has dramatized the story of the invasion of Finland. He has dramatized it simply, in terms of what happens to one Finnish family-a Nobel-Prize-winner, his U. S.-born wife, their youthful son. There is not very much action, most of the play consists of speeches-some of them eloquent, some inflammatory, some confused...
Despite the seeming optimism of his title, Sherwood provides no pick-me-up for audiences with headline hangovers. Through the Finnish gloom, Sherwood sees no light of imminent world salvation. He only argues, rather vaguely, that because glamor and heroics have at last gone out of war, men are that much closer to understanding war's horrors, and so ending them...
...overoptimistic, Sherwood is militant. His pacifist who, after studying the issues at stake, decides to fight can easily be taken as a symbol: Sherwood might well wish an anti-war U. S. to change its mind as Valkonen did. Although denying Columnist Raymond Clapper's accusation that his play is a plea for intervention, Sherwood admitted that he expected to be called a "warmonger...
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...