The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1947, Page 3

8 Lae a eee eee think her writing Has been in+ AUNS GEA think er wings Been oe f of ‘Varmints’ Hus No Time for Makeup) Carolinian, Thomas Wolfe, of ‘f By wruidseaccostal sn. ag sane she has read little.) Sitatet ready she has her next book i blocked out; one that will deal JNVILLE, Fla.—From her elfishly demure looks, you'd: with modern business. “I have an / think. that Peggy Bennett, 21) could write a novel like|idea a lot of people in America armints”, a lusty tale of small-town life in Flerida, . are trapped,” she says. fe story is laid in Tupelo, a sun-drugged town on the Gulf! Her mother would like her to Alt traces the life of Ezra, ak———————__________. law # emg gett —o ere for we children. But she is happier writ+ Pe enc saat 2 Pt ness, something like that of the | ing stories like “The Varmints” of. ms of the village prostitute films’ Margaret oo but when| which Ethel’s odyssey is a part: ter his wife dies; and of Ethel she is amused her laughter is “The city, the metropolis, where lees Bieta Hilla d. his. clk: bright and quick. ‘ tren. ie ee: Only when she talks does one the eye-duets take place a million Miss Bennett, acclaimed by perceive that here is a deadly take split second. The metal some reviewers as a “brilliant | Setious young woman who'jtower of Babel, a thousand new American novelist,” does | 98imed her word-knowledge by | tongues making their . strange not belong to the “glamor girl” | Poring over Webster's and fac- noises. . Everywhere she looked school of writers, She uses no | tal tomes during countless she met the eyes, she saw solo makeup; not even face powder. | Childhood ‘hours. {so many beautiful young men that Show windows displaying fash- Miss Bennett is descended from|she dreamed of being some kind ions that bewitch the hea-ts of |2 long line of Southern Baptists’ of supernatural being who loved most women leave her cold, who were “definitely non-liter-|eaeh individually and was loved She doesn’t go to movies be-|aty-” She was born in Henderson-|by them all. cause “they are too artificial,” | Ville, N. C., where her late father| “Had she ever lived in a small “I love to write,” she explains|was a carpenter. She attended |in¢redibly provincial town named simply. “I think if I did not have college for three years and until cers po pi bi were my writing I would melt away.”!ecently lived at Apalachicola. arhi cefused it ee Miss Bennett would not have 0 recognize the : : |During the war she was a payroll| United States as part of its go far to melt away. She is barely} clerk at a Florida Army camp. werld?” She reads little fiction; no |When she can trrus mould her articles of advice to writers. Of | feelings. into word - pictures, | the authors she has read, | Miss. Bennett feels sorry. for. George Bernard Shaw and Wil- ople who have to spend their. liam Butler Yeats are her fa- lives _ typing and Clerking. 1: leecccccccccccccccccccseole loccececessossaecauamne JOB PRINTING Modern machinery and efficient methods enable us to offer you superior printing service at fair prices. 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