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A Streetcar Named Desire may not be Tennessee Williams' most perverse play (Garden District concentrates on such themes as sadism and homosexuality with greater relish), but I find it his most disturbing and powerful one. It doesn't rely on gimmicks, SYMBOLS like venus flytraps and half eaten baby turtles...
Such a play requires a sympathetic production. Every step in Blanche DuBois' self-destruction must be carefully prepared for; the audience must be made to understand, to feel, the process of decay at work. Michael Murray's production at the Charles Playhouse seemed not so much misdirected as undirected, and...
During his first year as Cuba's boss, Premier Fidel Castro has made it increasingly plain to visiting newsmen that they are working on borrowed time. Non-Cuban correspondents, writing the truth about Cuba as they see it, have been harried: the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois (see...
Under the triumvirate's direction, the paper slowly changed its flamboyant ways. The Trib threw out most of the phonetic spelling of which McCormick had been so fond-"frate," "photograf," "soder"-leaving only a few traces, e.g., "altho." The "policy" stories began to fade away, and the news got...
But the boys at home were worried. Next day came the announcement that the Tribune was pulling Dubois out of Cuba for a while. At the airport to see him off were the predictable hoodlums, shouting obscenities. There were also a few friends. "Don't worry," Jules Dubois told...