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September 11, 2011

"Just going out for some smokes."

This is our father who left us a long time ago. He was a telephone man who fell in love with long distances.

--Tom Wingfield, Narrator, and Laura's brother, pointing to a picture on the mantle in their St. Louis walk-up, in The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

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1950 production with Jane Wyman as Laura, Kirk Douglas as the Gentleman Caller.

Posted by JD Hull at September 11, 2011 11:59 PM

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