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...past four years Playwright Robert Ardrey has tried to please critics, has never quite managed it in the U. S. Last week unexpectedly he turned the trick in London. The play: Thunder Rock, which had fizzled sadly when the Group Theatre produced it in Manhattan...
...story of an American escapist, Thunder Rock takes place in a lighthouse on an island in Lake Michigan, includes in its cast the ghosts of a handful of immigrants drowned in a shipwreck in 1849. Talking things over with his spooky companions, the hero of Thunder Rock discovers that the pessimism of 1849 was just as profound as that of 1939, resolves with no great originality to abandon his lighthouse and come to grips with life...
Regarded as a pretty callow opus when presented in the U. S.. Thunder Rock was playing last week to sellout houses, at the large Globe Theatre. Nerve-frayed British playgoers, sick of revues and musical comedies, found a tonic in Ardrey's proposition that times are never so tough as to be hopeless. Sample of the dialogue that stirs the British: "Stick to your guns, for God's sake, stick to your guns! Men live among you today who will be the leaders you despair of finding!" Better played by Michael Redgrave in London than...
...Rock's governor, Lieut. General Sir Clive Gerard ("Jock") Liddell, knew that, as Germany pushed home her attack on Great Britain (see p. 30), Gibraltar was really in for it from the Italians. There was even a report that the Germans were massing troops below Bordeaux for a land assault on the world's greatest fortress. This attack would come across Spain, which was less likely than ever to interfere, in view of Britain's plan announced last week to extend the blockade to all Spanish and Portuguese ports. Sir Clive's gravest concern...
...Gibraltar town. His wife and some 400 others went to Funchal, Madeira. A contingent of 300 were sent across the Strait to Tangier. As ships could be brought for them, others were to go to the Bahamas and Canada. Ships arriving brought supplies and soldier reinforcements that increased the Rock's garrison to above...