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...Getting good 'streetcar alumnus' support...
...gunman pivoted, shooting. Birdzell, out in the streetcar tracks of Pennsylvania Avenue, turned and began firing back. A bullet hit one of his legs and he sank to one knee. Another bullet hit his good leg. He tumbled forward, and went on banging steadily away with his pistol held braced at arm's length on the pavement before...
This is partly due to Jessica Tandy's highly resourceful performance as Hilda, reminiscent though it is of her Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. She portrays a woman full of inner violence and contradictory cravings, with overnight-hotel-room emotions that can find no permanent home. If she cannot really illuminate the part from within, outwardly she gives it an almost showy brilliance...
...young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough ... he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the want ads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough...
Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...