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Tennessee Williams' writing will outlive all of us-snipers and disciples. Kalem's cover piece [March 9] was an excellent tribute to a great artist...
Will you convey to Mr. Kalem our compliments for his article on Tennessee Williams? This was dramatic criticism on the level of the most perceptive philosophy...
Theater Critic Kalem's cover piece on Tennessee Williams was refreshing, especially in view of the bandwagoning upper-middlebrow critical sniping at the man's plays widespread the past five, six years...
...prefers the theater: "A play is never as uneventfully monotonous as a bad book. There may be a wonderful performance, or some hilarious scenes." At the height of the season, seeing plays four nights a week can be exhausting, but Kalem still has the tingle of expectancy before the curtain goes up. "We go to the theater for an intensification of life," he believes, with "the play serving as a magnifying glass." Realistic theater, which tries to duplicate life, he thinks is dying, its vitality siphoned off by photography and journalism. "A playwright needs to have an individual vision...
...because Tennessee Williams does have the audacity of his own peculiar and tormented vision that Kalem finds him stimulating as a playwright and sympathetic as a man. They talked together for about ten hours, often in Kalem's Greenwich Village duplex, along with Researcher Anne Hollister and Mrs. Kalem (who used to be a TIME books researcher until she married Kalem and became the mother of two children). Their sessions went so well that the resulting cover story may not provide the best illustration of one of Kalem's favorite definitions (by the late Critic Percy Hammond): "Dramatic...