Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, partially rewritten by Tennessee Williams, stopped on Broadway for the second time within a year in a rare and tenacious attempt to better a badly received, short-run play. But it is not better. The new version is weaker, more discursive and less dramatic. After five performances it closed...
...Milk Train, Tennessee Williams is concerned with ultimate things-the meaning of life, death and God-and the play has the bedrock interest that man's fate always holds for man. These fundamental questions demand answers, and Williams has only been able to give them echoes...
...Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams' new version of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More...
...There." Another said to have Ike's blessing and encouragement was Ambassador to South Viet Nam Henry Cabot Lodge, and a public movement to nominate him started last week. New York commuters and Christmas shoppers riding the New Haven Railroad found on each train seat a copy of a 2,000-word article full of "The man who" statements about Lodge-who "stands head and shoulders above the field. He is not only qualified to be President, he looks like a President." Lodge-for-President headquarters were scheduled to be opened in Boston this month by a group...
...plays over them to orchestrate speeches and scenes like music, so that the playgoer feels that he is experiencing the thematic flow of the hero's life -lyrical, staccato, abrasive, brassy and blue. There are remarkable impressionistic renderings of states of feeling: the disembodied rush of a transcontinental train sucked through the vacuum of night, the empty-souled writhings of some Venice Beach bopniks. But in the end, the hero still seems incapable of drawing the bow of manhood...