Flatiron Dust Storm: Picnic & Storm Center (1955-1956)

[Fiona Shnapple]

William Inge (b. Independence, Kansas, 1913-1973) , novelist and
playwrite won a Pulitzer prize for "Picnic" in 1953. Part of a book
entitled, Four Plays and was published together by Random House n
1959. The book included Come Back Little Sheba ,Picnic, Bus Stop and
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Inge was called "the Playwrite of
the Midwest." The popular film version, "Picnic", starred William
Holden and Kim Novak in 1955.

http://foodinthearts.blogspot.com/2010/02/arts-and-picnic.html

In 1953, Inge received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, a play based on
women he had known as a small child:

When I was a boy in Kansas, my mother had a boarding house. There were
three women school teachers living in the house. I was four years old,
and they were nice to me. I liked them. I saw their attempts, and,
even as a child, I sensed every woman’s failure. I began to sense the
sorrow and the emptiness in their lives, and it touched me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Inge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(play)

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/voslif.html

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the Wiki They wonder:
>
> Is there any reason, other than a typo, that the film in "Bleeding
> Edge" is said to have come out in 1956?
>
> Please take another look at this Flatiron Painting:
>
> http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/21.41.2
>
>
> I don't know, but....Pynchon is into the movies in a Big way, and he
> digs into the labor struggles, the studio strife, the Big Business
> Giants and the Independents....the Blacklisting and Turings and
> Testifyings and Technologies...and so on and, as in VL, his film
> choices are not simple throw away, red herring, but thematic. In this
> case, I suspect that P is pointing us to Columbia and Phoenix, to
> Picnic (1955), sure, but to Storm Center (1956).
>
> So the dates? Just me? Making paranoid plots plot? Well...trust and
> honor make the hawala work. Lack of it puts people out of work.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Center
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