Certainly the time frame for the c...

Certainly the time frame for the couple plays does not dismiss as it is speculations. Bus Riley's Back in Town, which in any ways anticipates the story-line of Inge's Splendor in the Grass, was the accrue of some material Inge continuously reworked all during the 1950 Connolly told me the brace writers often read drafts of each other's work, and, as Inge's secretary at the time, he could have shown a manuscript of Bus Riley to Williams, as he claims. Other Inge acquaintances, as it was as the actress Barbara Baxley, have also said that the playwrights oftentimes read each other's works-inprogress (Baxley Interview, 1986) Siveet Bird of Youth premiered March 10 1959 in fresh York, so it definitely appeared after the time Connolly claims to have shown Williams the Bus Riley manuscript. nevertheless the same time frame allows for the opposite possibility, because we don't know exactly when Williams started writing Sweet Bird, and Inge could have seen (unbeknownst to Connolly) an early version of Sweet Bird before he began writing Bus Riley. However, the many 1950 manuscript re-workings of Inge's play that can be institute in Inge collections at the University of Kansas and in his hometown of Independence, Kansas make this opposite possibility unlikely.