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Thus began a career that took her to TV, the concert circuit, and last May to Carnegie Hall. She has half a dozen briskly selling albums on the market, will appear as the murderess Nancy in the forthcoming film version of Faulkner's Sanctuary. What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer...
...were treading lightly (the survival rate of new record companies is less than 1%), Marianne and Barbara compiled a catalogue of releases that, to most merchandisers, read like a prospectus for bankruptcy-W. H. Auden declaiming Auden, Sir Ralph Richardson pacing gravely along Swann's Way, Faulkner grappling with his own syntax, an ailing Colette reading from her novels while the bed sheets rustled...
...Bentley explains in terms of the role theater plays in American society. "In this country, the theater is for amusement, which puts the author at a great disadvantage. Significant theater is written to be taken seriously." This is a motif to which he returns frequently. "Men like Hemingway and Faulkner write novels, because they know that novels will be taken seriously. But the play in this country that is both serious and popular is a real rarity...
Died. Maud ("Great-Granny") Falkner (her spelling), 88, late-in-life painter, and mother of Novelists William (The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary) and John (Men Working, Chooky) Faulkner (their spelling); of a stroke; in her home at Oxford, Miss. Maud Falkner began her painting in a WPA art class in 1941, produced some 600 oils, most of them copies of old masters but also many Negro portraits and rural landscapes...
...Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Hugh O'Brian and Stella Stevens star as the city slicker and his backwoods belle in William Faulkner's "The Graduation Dress...