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Thomas Lanier Williams III changed his name to Tennesse Williams after the place of his father's birth. Williams was a talented playwright whose most famous plays include: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie,The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo. The play, Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay, was first performed in 1935 at 1780 Glenview, Memphis. |
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1917 Snowden, Memphis
Tennessee Williams' first publicly performed play, Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay, was written here in the spring of 1935.
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1780 Glenview, Memphis
Tennessee Williams' first publicly performed play, Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay, was performed on July 12, 1935.
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