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Died. Sheila Kaye-Smith, 68, British writer of finely tooled novels (Joanna Godden, Susan Spray) set in the Sussex countryside, where she spent most of her life. Sheila Kaye-Smith published her first novel at 20, married onetime Anglican Clergyman Theodore Penrose Fry, was converted to Roman Catholicism with him in 1929, and turned in her writing to religious themes...
...Chalk Garden (by Enid Bagnold) is one of those rare plays that are genuinely and fascinatingly individual. When the curtain rises on a Cecil Beaton drawing room in Sussex, nothing could look more conventional. Even when the characters seem less in a comedy of manners than a comedy of mannerisms, Playwright Bagnold could still be having fairly usual fun with her eccentrics. But soon enough there is evidence of a special mind and temperament at work, of a kind of grande-dame method of playwriting, wayward and unconciliatory, but with a wit that delights and an authority that mesmerizes...
Inhabiting Playwright Bagnold's Sussex manor house are a self-indulgent, irresponsible dowager who exerts a Lady Macbeth manner on trifles, her adolescent granddaughter who indulges in mischief and fabricates melodrama, a rather Shavian manservant who cannot bear being criticized, and upstairs, dying, a butler who for 40 years has ruled the household. Into it, as a companion for the granddaughter, comes a primly dressed woman with a superb and transforming knowledge of gardens, a gift for ingratiating herself with people, and an obviously beclouded past. How beclouded is made clear when a judge (Percy Waram...
...Grade C. In Wilmington (pop. 110,356), 13 city schools will integrate this fall; 900 Negro students will attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...
...Tinsley Green, England, Woodcutter George Maynard, 82, led the marble masters of Sussex to an easy (33-16) victory in a match for the unofficial marble-shooting championship of the world. Sniping "knuckle down" from the taw circle, exactly as their Elizabethan ancestors did, the oldtimers shattered the pretensions of their challengers, a team of U.S. Navy sailors called the Grosvenor Gobs...