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Word: exits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central theme of "No Exit" is expressed by one of the characters: "Hell is other people." Three people, newly-arrived in Hell, find that they must spend eternity in each other's presence. Though they were not acquainted on earth, they soon perceive that being put together in one sealed room was no chance occurrence-each by his mere presence must forever torture the other...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...Exit" is virtually a three character play (there is a valet who appears briefly), an unusual burden is put upon the actors. The Idler players--Ed Franklin, Connaught O'Connel, and Carla Friedman--are a talented trio and what errors they committed last night can be laid at the feet of Mary Howe, the director. Mrs. Howe has been with the group for some time but she continues to show an appalling indifference to some of the mere fundamentals of staging. The greatest fault with the present production is that it is played throughout on too shrill a key. Miss...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...former subway exit near Wadsworth House on Massachusetts Avenue will retain its new status as an "open station"--an entrance as well as an exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotary Traffic Abandoned; Square Returns to Normal | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...display, situated near the library's first level exit, illustrates how photographs become printing plates in ten minutes when they are ruff through the CRIMSON'S $10,000 electric engraving machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Shows News Pictures in Lamont | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...through, Montserrat is a kind of moral duel between cynicism at its most brutal and idealism at its most impassioned. Both themes suit the stage, neither quite fills it, and Montserrat has been fattened up by giving the six pawns in the game their grim, gaudy exit scenes as people. As melodrama, Montserrat, though sometimes talky, is oftener tense. As writing, it has much of Adapter Hellman's sharpness and bite: in particular, her villain (well-played by Emlyn Williams) brings a fine sardonic gusto to his villainies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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