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...town they try to board a streetcar; no wardrobe closets allowed. They try to make friends with a girl; when the wardrobe comes, she goes. They walk into a restaurant; sorry, no diners with closets. They try to rent a hotel room; already has wardrobes. Wearily they stagger on, wondering what sort of world has no room for people with wardrobe closets...
Shades of Dutch & Legs. Three of India's 15 states have close to total prohibition ; nine others ban liquor in some areas. In all of them, bootleggers have come up with ploys undreamed of by Dutch Schultz or Legs Diamond. When eleven pregnant women filed onto one Bombay streetcar, an Indian cop with limited tolerance for coincidence arrested them all, found they were pregnant with football bladders filled with booze. Some bootleggers use lepers as delivery boys, confident that the police will shy away from searching them. Others cache their product in containers tied to the underside of manhole...
...Streetcar Named Desire may not be Tennessee Williams' most perverse play (Garden District concentrates on such themes as sadism and homosexuality with greater relish), but I find it his most disturbing and powerful one. It doesn't rely on gimmicks, SYMBOLS like venus flytraps and half eaten baby turtles for its impact, but rather on the conflict which causes the slow psychological disintegration of its heroine, Blanche DuBois. The tension is inherent in the play's dramatic situation, in the human relationships it explores, and that tension should rise slowly from the very first scene to the play's piercing...
...Charles Playhouse, starting Tuesday, Oct. 4, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Michael Murray...
Statistics & Resolutions. In Rio's crush, one Brazilian delegate was killed in a streetcar accident, eight underwent emergency operations, 260 applied for first-aid treatment, and nine lost their Bibles. In the city's Maracanazinho indoor stadium (25,000 capacity), delegates and spectators met for 14 plenary sessions, plus dozens of sectional meetings, during which the congress...