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...What will Mrs. Grundy say?" worried Dame Ashby throughout Morton's play. For years Mrs. Grundy and grundyism were synonymous with conventional behavior. But when Joe Grundy of Pennsylvania became influential in U.S. politics, the word took on the new meaning of "high button shoe political conservatism...
...Time I Save." His real triumph, though, (it's perhaps the high spot of the whole show) is the fanatic "I'll Never Be Jealous Again," where, steeled to devotion by a secretary, Mabel (Barbara Charakian), he sweeps the woman into one of the deftest, suavest soft-shoe bits since Eddie Foy created the role of Hinesy...
...Into Shoe Biz. Williams stayed at the University of Missouri for three years. Then his father, who had been a second lieutenant in the Spanish-American War, yanked him out of school for flunking R.O.T.C. and put him to work in the shoe company...
...time at the home of a girl named Hazel Kramer, "an incredibly lovely person, tremendously understanding, a terrific sense of humor." C.C. did not like her. When he heard that she was entering the University of Missouri with Tom, he pressured her grandfather, who worked for International Shoe, to send her to another school. She married someone else, and died while still young. That was the closest Williams came to marriage, though certain actresses have since had crushes on him. Says Anna Magnani, for whom he wrote The Rose Tattoo: "Tennessee is the only man I would marry immediately...
Williams got $65 a month as a clerk-typist and odd-job man. Though he now jokes about his rise "from shoe biz to show biz," he hated the job. He would begin the day dusting shoes, "thousands and thousands of shoes." Nights, right after supper, he would go to his room, which was just big enough to hold...