The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 10, 1937

Without Warning (by Ralph Spencer Zink; A. L. Jones, producer) is a mystery melodrama which takes place in an experimental hangar of a U. S. arsenal on an unnamed island off the Atlantic coast. It opens with a crucifixion, ends with a shooting. In the highly exciting interim a tough colonel from the Judge Advocate General’s Department (Jack Roseleigh), who arrives by Coast Guard plane in dress blues fresh from a Washington dinner party to solve the first killing, beats the daylights out of the wrong man just because he has it coming to him and, before the wild night is passed, not only detects but executes the right man.

Old-fashioned but par for its type. Without Warning is not recommendable to those who are made uncomfortable by exploding hand grenades, falling crates, sudden darkness.