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...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway...
...though the great-granddaughters of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women may now number themselves among the human race, they can also still feel some of the anger Virginia Woolf knew when upon entering a man's college library "...instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way...a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction...
...young people in their first discovery of the compromises and dishonesties in the grown-up world. Her best-known novels (To the North, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart) were so skillfully wrought that literary critics ranked them with the work of the late Virginia Woolf...
Died. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 68, famed artist-journalist (mostly for the New York Times), author (Drawn from Life, Here Am I) and onetime cover artist for TIME; of lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan. Woolf scored a success with his World War I battlefield paintings, hit on the portrait-interview combination in 1927 with a story on George Bernard Shaw, went on to do some 500 for the Sunday Times...
...Osbert Sitwell's "biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply became incapable of speech -"struck mute...