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Darkness at Noon (adapted by Sidney Kingsley from Arthur Koestler's novel; produced by the Playwrights' Company) dramatizes, on the whole, very well. Not only does much of it prove dramatic on the stage, but the drama has been bought at a sense-making price. The play keeps faith with the book: the brushwork is necessarily broader, but the framework has been kept intact. It remains a vivid memento of the Moscow trials, a sharp probing of the Communist mind...
Kingsley's N. S. Rubashov is, like Koestler's, a fallen intellectual commissar whose own harsh weapons have been turned against him. He will soon be shot, but, because of his importance, he must be made to confess his "crimes." He remains the old-line Bolshevik who does confess, who does die a Communist, though the Communism he dies...
Marriage Revealed. Arthur Koestler, 45, expatriate Hungarian author, widely read interpreter of the Communist mind (Darkness at Noon, The God That Failed); and his secretary, 34, who two years ago legally changed her name from Mamaine Paget to Mamaine Paget Koestler; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
...important New Leader job, it is not the only one. It also aims to present "a variety of opinions consistent with our democratic policy." As a result, its pages have glittered with articles by such big names as Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, Novelists George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, Poet Carl Sandburg, Politicos Herbert Morrison and Leon Blum, Labor Leaders Walter Reuther and James Carey, and a host of others...
...That Failed, by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Louis Fischer and Stephen Spender. Six disillusioned men tell why they got into and out of Communism (TIME...