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Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England...
...writes about things and places, but she sees them with a woman's eye as keen as any since Virginia Woolf's. Above all. she has a gift of imagery-pelicans, for in stance, landing on the sea. "crash like pickaxes." A Cold Spring, dedicated to a friend whose farm she visited, shows her at her best...
...managers, "who in the theater if you're in with, you've got it made." Beaumont signed her for repertory, threw her into The Reluctant Debutante, a role she was uniquely suited for, and The Moon Is Blue. Then Term's Producer Jimmy Woolf saw her in Moon, called her for a reading. Says Sarah: "When he told me I was being considered for the part with Sir Laurence, I thought: hell, thanks, goodbye-what!" Sixty girls read for the part. Says Pleased Producer Woolf: "She was easily the best...
Australia's Patrick White, while still a lamb in the field of letters, was unfortunately carried away by a big bad Woolf named Virginia. He still listens with the Bloomsbury ear, speaks in the Bloomsbury accent-broadened by a slight Australian snarl. In Britain, where Woolf's Bloomsbury is still held dear as well as precious, critics say he listens acutely and speaks with distinction. They have greeted all five of his novels (e.g., Voss, The Tree of Man) with little civil cries of educated pleasure. U.S. reviewers have been somewhat less impressed, and this turbid allegory will...
...Brattle Street Forum next Tuesday will discuss genetics--"Formula for Man"--with Paul Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany; William Boyd, professor of Biochemistry at Boston University, Carroll Williams, Chairman of the Biology Department; George Lefevre, Jr., Director of the university Biology Labs; and Charles M. Woolf, associate professor of Zoology at the university of Utah. The informal televised session is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in the Loeb Experimental Theatre...