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...cold." Michiko seems to have been drawn to a Japanese diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, at a time when she was reading Steinbeck and Faulkner. Asked Michiko crossly: "Does he think I am still a child...
...Sound and the Fury. Hollywood has diligently soaped up William Faulkner's stained-honor novel, but the laundered version is also admirably starched with excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner and Margaret Leighton...
...Sound and the Fury (20th Century-Fox) is the most interesting operation Hollywood has ever performed on a William Faulkner book. Scriptwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., in their shrewd but ruthless resection of the story, have revised almost every episode out of all resemblance to the novel, and have tidied up almost every character so as not to offend the mass public. Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving...
When Chance decides to lend Macgrady his passport (Macgrady's own is held by the syndicate) for a trip to London for medical help, the doctor and Anna are held as hostages. Not since Faulkner's Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating...
Requiem for a Nun. Nobel prizewinner William Faulkner's play is not a model of playmaking, but it is feelingly and uncompromisingly written around the great themes of sin and redemption...