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...Streetcar Named Desire--Saturday and Sunday at 2:50 and 7:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.; Brattle Theater...
...that I'm a very good comedienne. But I was always fighting that image too. I just never had the luck to play bitches. Those are the only parts that ever register really." Two bitches she almost played were Blanche du Bois in the Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire and Margo Channing in All About Eve. But movie contracts kept her from the first part and a skiing accident from the second, which went to Bette Davis. In A Talent for Murder, Colbert is playing for fun once again, as a witty but alcoholic writer of mysteries...
...styles," Feinstein takes particular delight in the fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...
...Warsaw, meanwhile, union leaders called a four-hour bus and streetcar strike at week's end to protest threatened pay cuts for workers who had stayed away from their jobs the previous Saturday. Other stoppages took place in the southern towns of Legnica and Mielec. Solidarity accused the Warsaw authorities of reneging on a promise to reduce the work week from six to five days. The government had granted the concession during negotiations that ended last summer's crippling national strike wave...
...skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...