Article: A brief candle in wartime: Anthony Rawlins and the Lunts, 1943.(Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne)

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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