Word: streetcar
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...past four years, Wisconsin's state law forbidding strikes in public utilities has been invoked 43 times to prevent shutdowns in bus lines, streetcar lines, the supply of gas and light. But last week the law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court...
Samson Raphaelson's Hilda Crane brings the star of Streetcar back to Broadway for a fine portrayal of a girl who loved a college professor but married a lawnmower manufacturer. Raphaelson and Miss Tandy, the critics claim, are excellent...
...Luce always had more urgent things to think about: one night in 1908, for instance, at a time when confinements, complete with delivery, grossed him $8 apiece, he traveled by streetcar through a blizzard to help a young mother give birth to triplets. All were forceps deliveries. Midway through the business the young father, who was helping out as anesthetist, fainted dead away. Dr. Luce left him on the floor and carried on alone. A year later he was going sleepless to make 40 calls a day by foot and by buggy in an effort to halt a milk-borne...
...Just a Lady." The story of Joy Street travels up & down the street of that name, a famous one in Boston, in a narrative streetcar named Desire, or Social Betterment, or Motherhood, or Good Business, or God Bless America-the name changes so often that a passenger is never quite sure. On Joy Street's fashionable Beacon Hill rise lives Emily Field, a young society woman with "charm and vivacity enough to hold her own at a Hasty Pudding Club dance or a Beck [an uppercrust Harvard dormitory] spread." Woe is Emily; these enviable talents are spent...
Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" is an intensely pessimistic work. Of course the most recent plays of Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill also deal with human disillusionment. But first and last, Blanche DuBois of "Streetcar" is a woman--a fascinating, living one--while Miller has intended Willy Loman to represent more than just one man. Willy is more than a husband, a father, or a salesman who is failure. He is a man whom we see crushed to death by the world, and he is a symbol of all such men. That is the basic reason...