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The apartment, at least as I saw it that rainy Saturday afternoon, was not unusual. Hot tea boiled on the stove in the kitchen. Japanese sengai paintings hung on the walls, and jars of candy lay around everywhere. Miss P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, lived here, in simple...
From the beginning of our conversation I could tell how much she relishes her role as resident celebrity. "Someone came up to me the other night and said: 'I see what you're doing here, you're instituting a dialogue.' That is quite right, for I don't like to...
For a while she tried journalism, which didn't suit her. She continued to write poetry, but then "one day in the country, while I was recovering from an illness, I began to write down Mary Poppins. I have an idea that I've been writing her all my life...
Miss Travers was leery of what Walt Disney intended to do with Mary Poppins from the time of their first meeting in New York during World War II. After some time of discussing and being unable to persuade her to come to Hollywood, Disney finally reached into his coat pocket...
The Nanny is a small sedate British thriller, based on the assumption that one good squirm deserves another. Having mopped up in three earlier blood-letters, moviedom's Ace Bogeywoman Bette Davis now goes about her grisliness with quiet, unruffled efficiency. The Nanny is her definitive essay on the...