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...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...
Roberts got well, became a preacher of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, traveled all over the U.S. For twelve years, he says, God did not give him the promised healing powers. One day he locked himself in his church study in Enid, Okla. and addressed himself to God: "I am going to find You. I will lie down on this floor before You and start praying. I will never rise until You speak to me." After several hours, he recounts, God ordered him to get up ("He spoke like a military commander"), get in his car, drive one block and turn...
Somehow she also finds time to fill up the fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine (circ. almost 300,000). She replies in writing to 3.000 fan letters a week, deals with 25 British and 40 foreign publishers, supervises four children's social clubs (365,000 members), one of which supports a convalescent home for children under five. Her well-known surgeon husband runs five different Enid Blyton companies, collects royalties from such products as Noddy chocolates, Noddy nighties...
Noddy village models. Enid Blyton has also obliged her fans with an autobiography. Its beginning: "If you came to tea with me, you would soon see where I live and what my home is like. You would walk down the country road looking for my house. Before you got there, you would probably say, 'That must be Green Hedges, Enid Blyton's house, because look-there's a black cocker spaniel sitting at the front gate.' You would be right." Parp! Parp! Last week, at the Stoll Theater, Noddy and his friends went through a typical...
Will Noddy ever achieve the stature of an Alice or a Peter Pan? Most adults are apt to niddy nod at the idea. But anyhow, he will obviously be around for a while. Enid Blyton has just had her ninth Noddy novel published, and from her tidy house with its black cocker spaniel sitting at the gate, there is no telling how many more words will come. "Once I get started," says she blithely, "I've just got to go on and on. Oh, I love...