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...nights before, Ballerina Nora Kaye starred in another episode which also seemed funny-when it was all over. As Blanche du Bois in the grim ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire, she had come within a few bars of the moment when Stanley Kowalski is supposed to rape her. The scene should have ended with Blanche making a spinning jump at Stanley (Igor Youskevitch) and being flung helplessly over his shoulder as the lights go out. Ballerina Kaye (110 Ibs.) jumped, all right, but as she did her right arm landed in her partner's left...
...such as pas de deux from Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Russian-born Danseur Noble Youskevitch, who was an aspiring Olympic gymnast when he turned to ballet in 1932, is one of the world's greatest male classical dancers. Last week he also leaped into a dramatic role: Stanley Kowalski, in Valerie Bettis' version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Dancer Youskevitch happily strutted his muscular way through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular...
Streetcar's Stanley Kowalski, as Brando conceived him, was a man to match the blast furnaces and the man-killing mines of an industrial age-"one of those guys who work hard and have lots of flesh with nothing supple about them. They never open their fists, really. They grip a cup like an animal would wrap a paw around it. They're so muscle-bound they can hardly talk. Stanley didn't give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself...
...talents were brought by the current On the Waterfront to a deep-burning focus in the characterization of Terry Malloy. The role demanded all that Kowalski had, and far more. Kowalski was a brute, and to understand him Brando's heart had to die a little. Terry Malloy was a brute who was turning, in agony and wonder, into a human being, and to interpret him Brando had to take the more painful brunt of being born...
...Jean-Louis Barrault, Gerard Philipe-play a number of important roles on the stage every year as well as one or two in the movies, Brando has only created 14 roles in his entire career of ten years. Furthermore, in five of those parts he played variations on the Kowalski theme. His intimates claim that he can do high comedy, low farce and classic tragedy just as well, but the world has had small chance to judge for itself. One director believes "there's a Faust in this kid, but he may never get to play...