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52 – Respectable Actresses & Disrespectful Women

Posted on September 30, 2013March 21, 2016

How does a respectable girl end up on the stage? At the opening night of the gorgeous Maeve’s House in the Peacock last week, I got talking to some people about Irish women emigrating to New York and the cachet of being an Abbey actress in the 1930s. Was it…

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