Statement in behalf of a poet : copy of a typed statement in support of Tennessee Williams's play Camino Real, [1957].

Record ID: 
224042
Accession number: 
MA 5342.1
Credit: 
Gift; Family of Carter Burden.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.)
Summary: 

The statement begins: "The undersigned group of artists, on their own volition and with no vested interest, are making this appeal to urge support for a beautiful play, CAMINO REAL by Tennessee Williams...like Alice in Wonderland or Ubu Roi, it is a work of the imagination--romantic, intensely poetic and modern." The typed names that appear below are: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, George Davis, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Lotta Lenya, John Latouche, Herbert Machiz, John Myers, Betty Parsons, I. Rice Pereira, and Gore Vidal.

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.