Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victors (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Thornton Wilder; produced by New Stages, Inc.) is sponsored by the same experimental group that last season made a bandbox hit, and then a Broadway hit, of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute. The new production is by no means so likely to triumph at the box office: it is very little more convincing than The Respectful Prostitute was, and it is a good deal less exciting and scandalous...
Jenny Kissed Me (by Jean Kerr; produced by James Russo, Michael Ellis and Alexander H. Cohen in association with Clarence M. Shapiro) is a cheery little bore that needs more art in its artlessness. It tells of a crotchety parish priest who, tired of having his housekeeper's solemn, scrubbed-looking niece around the rectory, sets about sprucing her up as a means to getting her spliced. In the end, he succeeds in transforming her into such a glamor girl that she gets the very man she wants...
...WALL (270 pp.) - Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander -New Directions...
...Jean-Paul Sartre, the high priest of the gloomy Gallic cult of existentialism, has been buffeted about recently. First, the Vatican put his works on the Index. More recently, the Russians have been after him. In the U.S., he has reached a precarious state of respectability; his earlier works are being reissued...
...cream of the novels from the Continent was unquestionably Albert Camus' The Plague, a study of human behavior in the face of death,-Readers might justly disdain the gabby slickness of The Chips Are Down, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel; but in Camus (often regarded as one of existentialism's fellow travelers, though he denies it), they could recognize the true novelist's capacity for translating philosophy and faith into the vigorous language of human conduct...