Here she got through lots of reading, beginning with Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and proved inventive in breaking rules. She discovered the theatre through acting coach Lawrence Campbell
...
Employer
P. L. Travers
Instead of taking up her university scholarship, PLT
went to work. First Aunt Ellie wangled her a secretarial job for which she had to fake competence in maths. Then she managed to get permission to...
Textual Production
Ngaio Marsh
NM
wrote of the theatre again in a preface for actor-manager Allan Wilkie
's autobiography (which unfortunately was never published)
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
132
and in Play Production, 1948, a little book for schools, with illustrations...
Textual Production
Ngaio Marsh
NM
's mother
played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager
made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White
and a shirt...
Textual Production
Ngaio Marsh
After this NM
dealt with bogus religion in Death in Ecstasy, 1936 (based on but heightening an actual scandal), the theatre world of New Zealand in Vintage Murder, 1937, (dedicated to Allan Wilkie
