Four Flights UpThis slender volume presents actress Margalo Gillmore's memoirs of her childhood. Father Frank, a well-known thespian of his day, invited George Arliss to dinner and founded Actors' Equity. Aunt Edith was an ardent theosophist who inspired delusions of witchcraft in young Margalo, while Granny and sister Ruth are rather normal and generously unaffected by the family flair for the dramatic. Even Margalo's little girl ranks proved her claim to an exaggerated theatrical fancy which was later channeled into the skills of an actress. This book brings teen-age Margalo through her first roadway success in "The Famous Mrs. Fair" and leaves the reader to wonder when and how she later grew up. The Gillmores' apartment was "Four Flights Up" and so too is the fantasy that assumes a general interest in this type of theatre memoir. |
Contents
WHEN I WAS A WITCH | 1 |
VIOLET | 15 |
ASTRAL PLANE AND FANCY | 25 |
Copyright | |
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