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...formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...
Three times in the past five years, Presbrey has "just been riding by" in a streetcar when million-dollar fires broke out in the sprawling industrial area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in his seat, decided that he had better go out in the street and have a look around. He walked right into a $500,000 department-store fire...
...Hapsburgs. Four power patrols drive through streets unmarked by zone borders. Only occasionally do you see a sign announcing: "You are now entering the American sector." But you never see an Austrian talking with Soviet soldier. The Russian troops are pariahs in a hostile culture, seldom even asked for streetcar fare by the conductor...
...Manchester opening of A Streetcar Named Desire, Actress Vivien Leigh got not only critical raves but a courtly gesture from Director Laurence Olivier: despite wild applause, he declined to take even a single bow on his wife's big night...
...brother, Communist Onofrio Cicatiello, a streetcar motorman, raged: "We will never allow Catholic flags to follow the hearse. We don't want anything more to do with those bigots." The Catholic Coronas stood up for their rights. As a compromise, two lines of mourners followed the hearse, one carrying red flags, the other with religious banners. Said a spectator: "I don't know what our neighbor Angelo would think if he were alive. But never have I seen a funeral with better color...