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- Tennessee Williams
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- (December 15, 1947)
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- Mississippi-born Playwright Tennessee Williams, 33, perhaps
- the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is
- a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he
- explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering
- writer...clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and
- holding on tight with raw fingers"--years in which he worked as
- bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse
- handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village
- bistro.
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- In 1945 came "the catastrophe of success"--Broadway's delight
- over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams suddenly felt like
- "a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work
- toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is
- the highest and purest form of religion."
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