Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Vintage International) by Capote Truman

Author:Capote, Truman [Capote, Truman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345803092
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

[New York]

[13 February 1955]

Last Sunday, you printed a letter by Members of The Friday Drama Group in Montclair, N.J. These ladies wished to “protest vigorously” the theme of “House of Flowers.” So far, no quarrel. * * *310 The picture conjured of the Friday Drama Group, their offended sensibilities at a Stradivarian pitch, sitting down all in a huffandpuff to write a letter to The Times, is, come to think of it, rather endearing.

But then the picture changes, a shadow falls across the cheerful scene of busy scribblers, and you realize that here after all is not a Hokinson idyll, for suddenly there occurs an ugly theory to the effect that the production of “House of Flowers” is harmful to “racial relations.”311 Now I don’t like this. * * * Surely chauvinism is the last fault that can be claimed against our musical. If this were not true, then a host of intelligent and talented artists, including Pearl Bailey, Juanita Hall and Frederick O’Neal, would not be connected with it. As far as “racial relations” are concerned, the only possible damage that could be done by “House of Flowers” is if it bored you: boredom is fatal to all relations; and somehow—don’t ask me why—I have the oddest feeling the ladies from Montclair were not that.

TRUMAN CAPOTE.

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