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Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which is conceivably the best and certainly the most famous American play to have been written since the war, has finally arrived at Harvard. It formed the first production of the newly-organized Dudley House Dramatic Society, and it seems to promise that the commuter's center will make a considerable contribution to the bourgeoning drama renaissance at the University...
However, while the Society's energy and enthusiasm deserves nothing but applause, their choice of a vehicle for their entry into the local scene is open to some question. Certainly Streetcar, Williams' most successful exploration of Southern degenaracy to date, is a popular play, but this very fact brings in its wake a number of problems. For one thing, though the play has not been staged right here before, it has received a good many recent productions, and comparison thus becomes inevitable. For another, it has become pretty thoroughly identified with the ultra-naturalistic school of acting developed by Elia...
...heavy-hoofed inflation is galloping through the Spanish economy. Franco's henchmen handed down two wage increases last year, and though they tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital: "Don't ride the streetcars...
...been a castrated servant of Communism ever since. Kadar, a onetime streetcar conductor, could have beaten it out of Hungary during the revolution, like thousands of lesser AVH victims; instead he reported to the Russian headquarters at Szolnok. The Russians (on Rakosi's advice, some reports say) promptly sent him back as Premier and Party Boss in place of the deposed Imre Nagy. They calculated that as an AVH martyr Kadar would command public sympathy and support, and being clay in their hands, his regime could be molded to any shape desired. The 60-odd days of Janos Kadar...
...Budapest which Ferenc Kocsis left behind was a ghost city. Streetcar lines were torn up, pavement stones had been piled into barricades, great buildings had been reduced to rubble, and fires still burned in others. There was not a whole pane of glass in the city. Nor was there a single Red star to be seen, or a Soviet monument. Even the boots of the gigantic statue of Stalin had been smashed to bits. The monstrous leonine head, spat on and befilthed, had long since disappeared...