Slapstick Tragedy. Tennessee Williams can sift the soul's gold from human dross. Unhappily, this double bill of one-acters. which closed after seven performances, is almost pure dross.
The Mutilated brings on a pair of New Orleans floozies who have had a falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"—one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her...
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