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...BARBARA B. WALKER...
...Barbara Stanwyck, who is Mrs. Robert Taylor in private life, got a cheer when she told the vast audience that at last a man has stepped forward to lead us out of twelve years of doubt...
...Barbara Scully as Maid Marion is pleasing to the eye although her voice lacks steadiness and clarity...
...Barbara Mullen), a heartbroken feminist, fled from the contemptuous jails of England. One (Frederick Cooper), a consumptive workman, fled from the inhumanities of a Victorian factory. One (Frederick Valk), a Viennese physician who prediscovered anesthesia, fled from the bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story...
...lubberliness, reminiscent of Eugene O'Neill at his worst. But it also has some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...