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...children. Shepherded by welfare groups, volunteers and relatives, they turned to the glittering cities to find promises of the future. "My mouth stands open," said one refugee, in wonderment. Said a young wife: "It is so beautiful. The new life is waiting for us. We are going into a dreamland." "To think," said a father, "that my children can have orange juice and eggs for breakfast. It is just like a paradise here...
...between trips on his private time machine, Gérard wears an otherworldly expression that begins to worry his friends. Is he considering suicide? They ply him with wine, let him win at cards. In short, they make him late for his triple date in dreamland. And what happened to a man who kept a lady waiting in 1900, in 1830, and in 1790 proves to be so much like what happens today that the composer is cured of his nostalgia and decides to risk being contemporary-a risk considerably sweetened by the charms of the garage-owner...
Died. Samuel Gumpertz, 84, veteran showman, onetime (1932-37) vice president and general manager of Ringling Brothers Circus, onetime manager of Coney Island's Dreamland and Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier; in Sarasota...
...movie is faithful to Williams' original characterization of Blanche DuBois, a faded and schizophrenic Southern belle who sinks progressively into a romantic dreamland of Southern lady hood. Stanley, her brother-in-law, heaves her off the tightrope of sanity after he hears of a previous stage of her illness, a sexual frenzy that, as it is described in hearsay, seems to have been not nymphomania but the frantic efforts of a schizoid to stay consciously alive. Vivien Leigh's performance is as much a tour de force as was Williams' creation of the role...
...Dreamland...