blackout of all taste except the taste of these men." Meanwhile, playwright Anderson mounted an ad in the New York Herald Tribune'': "It is an insult to our theater that there should be so many incompetents and irresponsibles among [the reviewers]. ... Of late years all plays are passed on largely by a sort of Jukes family of journalism." Cast (in alphabetical order) Joseph Adams ... Second Man Marlon Brando ... Sage McRae Irene Dailey ... Angie Joann Dolan ... Evvie Garrett Leila Ernst ... Sissie Louis A. Florence ... Matt Lou Gilbert ... Man With a Pail Virginia Gilmore ... Anne Solen Hayes ... First Man Peter Hobbs ... The Breadman Lorraine Kirby ... First Woman Karl Malden ... Stag David Manners ... Wing Commander Hern June March ... Mildred Kevin McCarthy ... Maurice Peggy Meredith ... Janet Anne Morgan ... First Girl Frank Overton ... Toby Richard Paul ... Bimi Ann Shepherd ... Tory McRae Robert Simon ... Patrolman Gray Eugene Steiner ... Tuffy Garrett Rose Steiner ... Second Woman Gloria Stroock ... Second Girl John Sweet ... Stew Ralph Theadore ... Kip Kenneth Tobey ... Hutch Joanne Tree ... Celeste June Walker ... Min Richard Waring ... Mort Jutta Wolf ... June External links Truckline Cafe at the Internet Broadway Database The Villager "Marlon Brando and the birth of American acting" Slate Magazine "Brand Brando" Time Magazine review, March 11, 1946 Broadway plays 1946 plays Plays by Maxwell Anderson