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They slip into West Berlin furtively, usually on a streetcar or subway train. Dazed by fright and fatigue, they seek out a policeman; he directs them to a three-story brick building in Kuno Fischer Strasse in the British sector. In a jostle overhung with the smell of sweat and disinfectant, they are registered and assigned to a refugee center. Berlin now has 78 of them, large & small. One is a former bomb shelter without windows. Another, which I visited last week, is a hastily reconditioned former factory where each of 11,800 refugees gets a cot, about...
...branch of the police called "Political Order." Headed by ex-Detective Camilo Racana, the branch is now estimated to number some 50,000 plainclothesmen and undercover informants, including a large female contingent and a trained squad of lip readers. One day last week, an architect going home by streetcar noticed a particularly ramshackle bus that had just had a new paint job. Without thinking, he turned to the passenger beside him and asked: "Wonder why they wasted paint on that old wreck?" At the next stop the fellow passenger, a woman, showed the architect her police credentials and told...
...belle and a leading spirit even as a little girl. "When the rest of us were still getting kicked in the shins by boys," recalls Mrs. Eileen Archibold, a girlhood friend, "one of them gave Mamie a snakeskin. It was a real honor." Mamie made regular Saturday streetcar pilgrimages to the Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch's grape juice...
Play and moviegoers unfamiliar with the tangled tale of Streetcar were hard put to follow the plot line, but found it gripping and disturbing nevertheless. Beaten Blanche Du Bois, danced by Slavenska, quickly revealed the incipient madness which, in the play, had a slower buildup. Thereafter, the dance action veered between Blanche's lurid inner life and the real life of a New Orleans slum: Blanche's wistful meeting with a potential suitor, a boisterous crap game, the taut marriage of her sister and brother-in-law (danced by Lois Ellyn and Franklin). Dramatic climax: a hair-raising...
...troupe also boasted several standard tiptoeing ballets, as well as famed Ballerina Alexandra Danilova as guest star. But Streetcar, composed by Modern Dancer Valerie Bettis, was clearly the breadwinner. The management sagely scheduled it for every performance except the first children's matinee. Midway in their one-week stand, Slavenska, Franklin & Co. decided to extend their run into January, then take Streetcar back on the road...