Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potentialities of the present German offensive still remain. The offensive has not petered out, as some experts have blithely written. It is in a secondary stage. We have reacted as the enemy must have expected us to react and he is engaged in holding and trying to beat back our counterattacks. So far we have made little progress in closing his corridor behind him. He is keeping us busy elsewhere on the front and he doubtless made some shrewd calculations as to the reserves we could bring to bear. And if we fail to pinch off his corridor...
Luckily, the appeal of the play's theme and setting keeps pace with its errors and artifices. Lachlen's companions-a Yank, a Tommy, an Aussie, a New Zealander-with their unforced talk, their unmilitary longings, their international humor-are likable stage types. They are also, because they never strain to be, pretty convincing soldiers...
Tomorrow, the World! (United Artists) is a straightforward screen version of last year's straightforward stage melodrama (TIME, April 26, 1943) about the little boy from Hitler's Germany who brings his Nazi-conditioned reflexes into a liberal-minded American household and practically destroys it before he begins to see the dawn's early light...
Because it does not have to crowd the child's progressive deviltries into a few solid blocks of stage action, the film makes Emil a more thoroughly plausible character than he was in the play...
...music by David Diamond and eloquent lighting by Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...