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Sometimes a great play can carry its message over to the audience no matter how bad the production. But even "Streetcar" is having a tough time at the Boston Summer Theatre. Poor direction and unsure characterizations rob much of the power from Tennessee WilWilliams' masterpiece...
Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...
...buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses, subways, shops, bars and cafes, did without newspapers. Like long lines of ants the workers patiently walked to plant and factory in silence so that police would not be able to call them demonstrators. They avoided subway entries and streetcar stations where blue-shirted Falange strong-arm men were waiting to shove them aboard the empty cars. Shops were empty all day. In the evening the same antlike processions marched silently homewards. Thousands of police patrolled the streets in trucks, cars and on horseback...
Hollywood's professional previewers last week thought they had spotted a new landmark in moviemaking. The picture: A Streetcar Named Desire, a faithful cinema version of the powerful, moody Broadway hit, with Vivien Leigh as the tarnished, sex-driven Southern schoolteacher, and Marlon Brando as her brutish brother-in-law. Said Playwright Tennessee Williams: "[It] has survived with whatever honesty and beauty it had in the beginning-and even more." Streetcar is due for release in September...
...Iowa. The Katz superstores carry more than 25,000 items, ranging from television sets to clothing, from mousetraps to lovebirds. Five of them carry monkeys, and managed to sell 15 last year at $82 apiece. (Last week the price was cut to $79.) One popular come-on: cut-rate streetcar and bus tickets. But the Katz specialty is selling nationally advertised merchandise "at the right price"-which in Missouri is usually lower than the established price.* In 1950, reported Ike and Mike last week, this policy paid off with record sales of $32 million...