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...Fare. In Melbourne, Australia, completely unaware that he had been followed onto a jammed streetcar, a suspected pickpocket gave himself away by slipping his hand into the pocket of Detective Reg Henderson...
...secretary of the Hungarian legation. On other benches, stolid Viennese burghers dozed in the warm May sun. But when Teleki began talking to his victim, the dozing burghers sprang into action: they were Austrian security police. Teleki was grabbed on his bench; First Secretary Kertesz sprinted for a passing streetcar but was quickly collared and dragged back, weeping...
...monologue. This Property Is Condemned was another disguised monologue, touchingly acted by a 13-year-old ballet hopeful, Zina Bethune. As an abandoned child living in the tortured, twisted glories of her past, she bore a remarkable resemblance to her older but equally demented sister, Blanche DuBois of Streetcar fame. Tennessee's three were clearly the first drafts of a talented author's later work. Their distinction lay in the fact that the talent was clearly there. For viewers, they provided a few moments of poetic depth rare on TV-and for Kraft, a much-needed artistic boost...
Before he decided to be a full-time composer at 27, Walter Piston worked as a draftsman for the old Boston Elevated Railway (he helped draw plans for an "articulated streetcar") and studied painting. His painting teacher advised him: "Don't be afraid to make a poor one." Since then, unafraid Composer Piston, now 64, has turned out a steady flow of works, none of them poor, most (including a 1948 Pulitzer-prizewinning Third Symphony) concise, witty, technically brilliant. Last week the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed the latest Piston, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, to warm applause. As played...
Playwright Tennessee Williams, 43, whose work surges with all manner of violence, from rape (A Streetcar Named Desire) to homosexualism and cannibalism (Garden District), last week took Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle on a tour of the Williams psyche, on which a psychoanalyst is at work five times a week at $50 an hour. Observed Playwright Williams: "I find it immensely stimulating...