Claptrap-trashy mellerdramer from hysterical Ten Williams...that involves venereal disease and finally castration. Back in the 1950s, this was all taken seriously ! Today it reads like a parody of a tv soap. If you read it as a comedy, you won't stop laughing. Actually, it's pretty funny too as a meller.Faded Hollyla star, "The Princess," with her current trick, goes south where he once infected the daughter of a political boss and her Daddy is pissed off. Ten Williams is deep in someone's cups. Twaddle in a demi-tasse.

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Sweet Bird of Youth

There is something real about that sad, strange outsider who recognizes the same qualities in his readers. It has been quoted many times before, but Chance Wayne's closing lines as he faces the punishment for his many offenses encapsulates perfectly what Williams is all about: I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding—not even that—no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. It was a brilliant touch to have the transgressive young stud Chance traveling with a washed up actress named Alexandra del Lago. In the play, both characters arrive at differently forking life paths, one positive, the other not.  Williams is a treasure.

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