His Town.(Tennessee Williams)

In his memoir, Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest caricaturists this country has ever produced, recalls two meetings with his fellow-playwright Thornton Wilder. After "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened in New Haven, in 1947, Williams notes:

We were invited to the quarters of Mr. Thornton Wilder, who was in residence there. It was like having a papal audience. We all sat about this academic gentleman while he put the play down as if delivering a papal bull. He said that it was based upon a fatally mistaken premise. No female who had ever been a lady (he was referring to Stella) could possibly marry a vulgarian such as Stanley. . . . I thought, privately, This ...