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...gloom in his new book. The Holy Sinner was an urbane story about a child born of incest who becomes pope, a medieval tale that Mann embellished with touches of Freud and assorted ironic mockeries. Another prophet of gloom stuck to his pessimism. In The Age of Longing, Arthur Koestler saw a cynical Europe doomed to war, unwillingly tied to a U.S. it could not respect. Like many a man who has lost faith in Communism, Koestler still seemed without a clear new belief-least of all in democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year war's strategy. In his usual slick style, Philip Wylie wrote the love story of a Russian girl, who had been sterilized by a bomb burst, and a U.S. major. Arthur Koestler, Marguerite Higgins, Walter Reuther, Walter Winchell and the Christian Science Monitor's Erwin Canham were on hand to report on the rebirth in conquered Moscow of such things as religion, unions, a free press, the beginnings of democratic government. As a pious afterthought Collier's said editorially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Collier's Reports a War | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Frank B. Ensign jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

Rubashov's prosecutor is Gletkin, played by Leo Gordon. In the book, Koestler successfully implied that Gletkin was unimportant in Rubashov's life, that the prosecutor was only a piece of complicated Stalinist machinery--inflexible, inhuman, and moral. However, in the Kingsley play, Gordon's steel-like portrayal was awkward and overplayed. Lois Nettleton took the part of Rubashov's mistress and secretary, and was quite persuasive in proving her loyalty...

Author: By Frank B. Ensign jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

...Darkness at Noon this actor gave Broadway a superb characterization of Arthur Koestler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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