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Article: A brief candle in wartime: Anthony Rawlins and the Lunts, 1943.(Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne)
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- Theatre Notebook
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Society for Theatre Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The letter published below gives a vivid personal view of the well-known American actor-director Alfred Lunt and his British-born wife, Lynn Fontanne, in Robert E. Sherwood's anti-fascist drama There Shall be no Night, at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on New Year's Eve 1943. Set in pre-war Helsinki when Lunt first directed it in New York in 1940, the play was originally a response to the Russian invasion of Finland but was updated to a Greek setting after the Italian and German assault on Greece (1940-41). It won a Pulitzer Prize in May 1941 and the Lunts brought it to London in 1943, opening on 15 December.
The writer of the letter was Anthony Rawlins, a young ...
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