1939-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

1939/09-10 — STORY Magazine. Volume XV, Number 79. September-October 1939.

Contents as taken from both the front cover and the index page inside are:

“Heil, Jennie!” by Jane Eberle

“Just Plug it In” by Frederick Scribner

“Brother-In-Law, Eif Tongs” by Jesse Stuart

“Something Jolly” by Dorothy McCleary

The Field of Blue Children” by Tennessee Williams Very early Williams apparently after amateur produced plays but just prior to his first professionally produced play. From the biography section of this issue: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS writes, “I’m twenty-five, a native of Mississippi, descendant of Indian-fighting Tennessee pioneers. I’ve attended three universities, getting my B.A. degree last summer from the University of Iowa. While there, I worked as a waiter in the state hospital–waiting tables is my chief subsidiary occupation although I’ve also been employed in a shoe warehouse, office and retail store for short periods between my work at college. I’ve had two long plays presented in St. Louis by the Mummers of that city–they were “Fugitive Kind: and “Candles to the Sun”. I have two long plays in progress. Right now I’m doing chores and picking squabs for my board on a pigeon ranch in Los Angeles country and have just returned from a 440-mile bicycle tour or rural Mexico and the Southern California coast line. This spring I was given a Group Theatre prize for a one-act play.” So as you can see, this is pretty early Tennessee Williams!

“The Way Death Comes” by Prudencio de Pereda

“The Waterfall” by J.W. Palmer

“My Grandfather, Detective” by Edde Tarjan

“Fine Place We Had Last Year” by Roderick Lull