The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1940

Another Sun (by Dorothy Thompson & Fritz Kortner; produced by Cheryl Crawford). When Dorothy Thompson attacks Naziism in her famed column On the Record, she is one of the deadliest haters now writing. But when, last week, she attacked it in her first play, she seemed tame as tea and weak as water. A dull, dawdling tale of refugee theatre folk in Manhattan at the time of Anschluss (Co-Playwright Kortner is himself a refugee actor). Another Sun told of their hopes & fears and of the dilemma of the most famous of them, who, unable to get work in the...

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