Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adds up to a sort of higher vaudeville-a short Leonard Bernstein opera, a short Tennessee Williams play, and Dancer Paul Draper. Nothing on the bill was fresh-minted for the occasion. Indeed, Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton is eleven years old; and occasion is hardly the right word for the whole evening. But, helped by some talented performing, All in One is pleasantly unusual and varied...
...Wagons Full of Cotton reveals that for Tennessee Williams, life had dirty fingernails from the outset. Williams tells of a mussy, lolling, almost half-witted young girl married to a much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he gets the order to process his rival's cotton, but the rival supervisor, as hush money, beds the wife. The plot is rowdy Erskine Caldwell with a crueler edge: already, eleven years ago, Williams could make a smoking-car story constitute a criticism of life. Tremendously helpful to 27 Wagons...
...Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, a young housewife twisted in front of a three-way mirror, inspecting a cotton dress. "Just what I want," she said. "Smart, you know, but casual." Said a shopper in Los Angeles' May Co.: "This year I'm going to concentrate on shirts, cashmere sweaters and knit dresses." A determined huntress...
...Picasso untied an old shoe box and pulled out a bright red earthenware piggy bank, unwrapped a jar of fruit paste, an envelope of Jordan almonds from the butcher shop ("That's Spain. One buys bonbons at the butcher's," commented Picasso), a tissue paper filled with cotton seeds ("Just what we need here!"). Picasso glanced eagerly at the family photographs, turned the occasion into an old home week with his comments: Nephew Jaime-"He looks just like the Count of Paris"; Dona Lola-"She resembles a bullfighter's mother or a Roman empress"; their apartment...
...Challenge Accepted. In Memphis, five delegates to a Key Club convention discussing "Vandalism: A Challenge to Youth" were fined $16 each for throwing a mirror and chair out of a window of the Hotel King Cotton...