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Gallantry Plus. In Glasgow, Scotland, Patrick McCusker kept raising his hat to women waiting for a streetcar, was finally arrested for disturbing the peace because perched on his head under the hat he carried two white mice...
...Only seven years after his ordination as a priest in Rome, he was back in the Holy City as a member of the Vatican Secretariat of State. He stood well in the Vatican, was the protege of Boston's Cardinal Glennon.* Now this brilliant son of a Massachusetts streetcar conductor saw both his soul and his career endangered by his love for a beautiful Italian countess. Instead of concentrating on his papal chores, he kept thinking of himself lying on the grass beneath a flowering pear tree with Ghislana Falerni...
...majority of students, the approach to knowledge is along a slushy Holyoke or puddle-pocked Plympton Street. But to many it is a more devious way, by streetcar or subway. For these last, the commuters, Dudley Center is the one place to eat, rest, and enjoy some of the congenial atmosphere associated with the term "college life...
These are snatches of a tune that Uta Hagen, as Blanche DuBois, sings near the end of "A Streetcar Named Desire." In the hands of author Tennessee Williams, the lines are more than part of a song. They contain the despairing Blanche's philosophy, and as such they are the theme of one of the most moving tragedies of the theater today...
...dream--a set which echoes the mood of the play and which, through imaginative lighting, molds itself to the rising action. Elia Kazan's skilled direction has shaped the production into a meaningful, clear-cut picture of desire and despair. A play of the merit of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" is deserving of all the thought and skill that has been lavished...