![]() She is enormously proud of all the stars of the stage who were inhabitants of the house in their humbler days singers and dancers and actresses and acrobats, even some I had clippings of in my scrapbook back home! The parlour is fairly papered with their framed photographs, and on her merrier evenings she is a goldmine of stories. The boarding house is run by Mrs Travers, who was an actress herself in her youth. ![]() Our boarding house is in Villareal Square, and there are more kinds of people here than I knew existed! Just walking down to buy a loaf of bread in the morning one hears half a dozen languages. ![]() You can tell Mother rest assured that I have not quite sunk into a pit of vice and voluptuousness, but my horizons have certainly been expanded. I am certainly seeing a side of Greater Windenburg we never saw when Aunt Minnie used to take us to the pantomime at Christmas. September 10th, 1910- Letter extract, Clem Gillespie to Daisy Gillespie
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