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Near week's end Producer Susskind withdrew plans for his TV Ben Hur. Still in the works for CBS's U.S. Steel Hour: a TV play about the life of Sigmund Freud, anticipating a planned movie. The odds are nicely balanced. While the movie makers have Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to write the script, TV has Farley Granger to play Professor Freud...
...Jean-Paul Sartre's one-act play No Exit will be the next production of the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, next week on Aug. 14, 15, and 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Union...
...that he deems antisocial or commercial. Like Le Corbusier, Picasso and many another artist, he calls himself a Communist, did not switch even after Hungary, because "we are too old to change." But he insists that he limits his Communist activity to donations to the party, prefers novels (favorite: Jean-Paul Sartre) to Marx, takes little interest in politics, and remains a close friend of anti-Red President Kubitschek...
...organization hopes to follow this production with a presentation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit...
When it appeared in France early this year, the book was a runaway bestseller (65,000 copies sold), generating shock waves of conscience. It was banned within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared...