Word: meg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Dark Angel, with Meg Mundy, Sidney Blackmer...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, with Meg Mundy...
...Meg at twelve is a puzzle to her schoolmates, a trial to her teachers, a constant irritant who sends her unsympathetic father's blood pressure zooming. She lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little...
...Meg really lives three lives simultaneously: one in her febrile imagination, another in her socially correct school and home, a third in the brutal world of poverty and degradation that begins just around the corner. Before she is 13, Meg is raped by an older boy, manages to pass her history examination by threatening to expose her teacher, whom she has caught in a Lesbian relationship. Meg's parents know nothing of her life in that lurid world: few adults could hope to understand her much better in the other...
Author Keogh is no exception. A granddaughter of Teddy Roosevelt, she now lives in Paris with her painter-husband, but she used to live on Meg's East Side. In her first novel she has ventured into one of fiction's most difficult areas: the amoral, grotesquely furnished mind of childhood. Few writers have explored it successfully; Meg is not in the same class with Richard Hughes's Innocent Voyage or A. L. Barker's Innocents (TIME, March 22, 1948). Author Keogh knows Meg, all right, but mostly from the outside, and her startling little novel...