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...Sidney Kingsley's dramatic adaptation of Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" has finally come to Boston after a successful year in New York. Somewhere between Broadway and the Colonial Theater, Edward G. Robinson has assumed the major role of Rubashov, played by Claude Raines in the New York production. Many critics have considered Raines' portrayal of the old Bolshevik as his greatest role, but it would be difficult to improve upon the provable, disheartened, tragic Rubashov which Robinson creates...
...British Bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar school intellectual, the new technical school boys whose knowing twang you hear on every bus, every manic-depressive Orwellite, fissurated Koestlerite, prehistoric Fabian, antique Keir Hardyite, flaming anti-Roman Catholic, like . . . the editor himself, Mr. Kingsley Martin, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin's Bottled Bellyache...
...Sidney Kingsley's adaptation of the novel by Arthur Koestler is magnificently clear in presenting its ideas--that the revolutionary dreams of Communism have no reality today, and that those who disregard the means for the end are inevitably crushed by their own logic. The setting in which these ideas are presented is a fitting one: a prison filed with men who are doomed, and with the guards who are less men than automatons...
...Sidney Kingsley's drama of a discarded Communist official recently won the New York drama critics' award as the best play of the year. It is based on Arthur Koestler's novel of the same name...
Playwright Kingsley released the play for amateur production recently because of its timely theme...