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to write. You write very well.” Those were just little things that I wrote. My letters which I wrote when I was traveling and away from my family my father treasured, not as you treasure letters of your child, but because they were entertaining and interesting - at least that's what he said. It was about that that he said to me, “You write very well. You ought to write what you saw in London. You ought to write it up.” I wrote reports often.

As a very young girl, I cherished a desire to be a writer. At one time when I first hit New York I was badly bitten by the idea that I could have a place in the theatre. It was before there were any women in the theatre, except as actresses. Theresa Helburn hadn't come along, or had that idea anybody would be a director. I had had college experience in amateur theatricals and in other places too. I had been good at it. I had enjoyed very much the directing of a play, quite as much as acting in it, more. I was sort of intrigued with the idea that if you could get in you could do the direction, plan it and make it a better play.

One whole summer I shopped around various theatrical offices. I suppose I went to six or seven all told, trying to get in. They wouldn't even talk to you. You weren't even to be thought of. Beverly Sitgreaves, who was a character