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...NARROW COVERING (214 pp.)-Julia Siebel-Harcourt, Brace...
...their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa's best suit accidentally encountered in a forgotten closet...
Reread Willa. Author Siebel's grim little slice of life has the troubling oppressiveness of a Grant Wood painting. Her portrait has a frame of iron, and within it poor Ella and all the rest do not have a chance because Julia Siebel never meant them to have one. Hatred for the harsh side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with...
...Julia's world, all television is concentrated in the i^-to ^minute commercial. Explains Adman Wilson: "It may be a matter of indifference to the layman but to agencies and sponsors it is life and death. The announcer is a little like the guy in an orchestra who has to clash the cymbals at a certain moment. If he goofs, the entire symphony is ruined-at least, as far as we are concerned." Julia seldom goofs. "I try to be natural, believable, sincere," she says in a dedicated tone. "It's not easy. On the stage...
...Julia studies her script for four days, rehearses it in front of her husband, an illustrator named O. Worsham Rudd. By show time she has the script memorized and never uses cue cards. She sometimes views kinescopes of old programs, looking for flawed gestures and diction ("I have a tendency to make my r's too pronounced"). As she delivered her isoth commercial for Lincoln last week, Julia knew precisely what effect she wanted to achieve: "I hope that when I come on-camera I get an 'Oh' of delight, and not 'Oh, her again...