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...Brussels, streetcar motormen who defied strike orders were blocked by throngs on the tracks who threw bricks through the car windows. Taxis that ventured out were overturned. A procession of several thousand anti-Leopoldists marched towards Leopold's palace at Laeken yelling "Abdication!" and "A has la calotte [down with the cassocks]." Ex-Premier Spaak was at the head of the line. A woman ran up to him, stroked his plump face and said, "Aren't you tired? What are you going to do now? Camp...
...quick succession he got fat parts in Maxwell Anderson's short-lived Truckline Cafe, Katharine Cornell's production of Candida and Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born. In 1947, he found himself an overnight Broadway sensation as the brutish lout of a husband in A Streetcar Named Desire. He is still not certain that he fully "succeeded in some aspects of the part," in spite of the fact that one critic called him "our theater's most memorable young actor at his most memorable...
From Paris, Playwright Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams admitted that he had just finished his first novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, about a retired American actress living in Rome. The book will not be published until September, but Williams has already set his heart on Greta Garbo to star in the movie version...
...writing in years. And though Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding (winner of the Critics' Award) might have trouble proving itself a play, it too could take pride in much of its writing. Better still, both these very individual works, like such recent others as A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman and The Madwoman of Chaillot, became genuine box-office hits...
...reasonably good. In its second year, South Pacific remained the biggest-in fact the alltime biggest-hit on Broadway. Hollywood, having sat with folded hands the season before, dug down into its jeans for more than $1,000,000, paying $350,000 plus a percentage for A Streetcar Named Desire, $285,000 plus a percentage for Detective Story. Without much to look back on in 1949-50, Broadway could at least look forward to being in business...