Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exit. In Maysville, Ky., the 76-year no-escape record of the Mason County jail stood intact after police made a surprise search of the building, confiscated four hacksaws, three knives, found prisoners sawing away at the bars...
...very good that there's No Exit after The Anniversary because Sartre proves much better than Chekhov, who is a Russian anyway. At Leverett Dining Hall, at 8:30 p.m. today...
...Leverett House Dramatic Society put together an odd evening of theather by presenting Chekov's The Anniversary and Sartre's No Exit on the same program. Both plays are one-acters, but there any parallel between them ends. The Chekov piece is a mad little farce, while the play by Sartre, though also billed as a comedy, is a somber and complicated essay in philosophy. The two dramas, however, do not leave behind an impression of conflicting moods, since the production of No Exit all but eclipses that of its companion...
...Exit is a difficult play, both for the actors and for the audience. On the surface to be sure, it appears quite simple--a man and two women meet in one room and spend about an hour talking to each other. But the room is in hell, and in their conversation each of them slowly bares his soul. The play has no further plot than this process of self-discovery, and it might be boring if, in revealing the evil of his characters, Sartre did not manage to make statements on a great number of subjects ranging from love...
...past, no worries about the present. He expects to gross $11 million this year, has already pocketed large profits from the $50 million worth of Dutch goods that he has sold to U.S. armed forces. "No kidding," says he, "the first million is the hardest." After his fast exit from Germany he bought a mansion at Waterloo, Belgium, lives there with his wife and three children. To upgrade his social position, he joined Belgium's Royal Jockey Club, built up a stable of 35 thoroughbreds. From the owners' enclosure at Longchamps he has elbowed his way into...