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...Rose Tattoo (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is laid, like most Tennessee Williams plays, in the South-in a village on the Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...
...Rose Tattoo is about Serafina Delle Rose, whose husband-a lusty man with a rose tattooed on his chest-is killed smuggling narcotics on a banana truck. After his death, Serafina wildly exalts him into a legend, lives devotedly with his ashes, cuts off all outside life. Then, slowly and agonizingly, she is forced to recognize that her husband was unfaithful to her. Through another banana-truck driver, "with my husband's body and the face of a clown," she is brought back to life, and set free to love...
Williams began The Rose Tattoo in Rome, so carried away by Italian "vitality ... and love of life" that he jumped from one extreme to another. Perhaps the knowledge that he had been repeating himself counted for as much as the atmosphere of Rome. In any case, at both extremes he displays the same excess: the same romanticism, sensationalism, violence. Now he writes of a woman who, when baffled, shatters her household possessions instead of her sanity-a woman who has to be rescued from a mausoleum instead of sent to a madhouse...
Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
Witness Richard Gryc testified that Ilse told another prisoner. "What a lovely tattoo you have." Shortly after, the prisoner was poisoned...