I recently found a letter from my mother to a friend <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It describes a visit to the open air theatre in Regents Park <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My father rather admired the actress Belinda Lee <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And as a birthday treat my mother took him to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As You Like it as this was the first time that the actress <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who had previously acted in films had attempted Shakespeare <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mother who had studied his work rather liked her performance <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And kept a few newspaper cuttings of the time <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was described as a high speed Rosalind by the Telegraph <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Financial Times noted her to be brown as a nut<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As well as being fresh as a daisy and as pretty as a buttercup<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also found a couple of cuttings reporting the death of the actress in a car accident in 1961<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a waste was written in my mothers hand using her lovely purple ink <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought of Camus and the absurdity of his death in a car accident the year before <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mother was an elegant woman who was gradually worn down by life <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow would have been her ninety-ninth birthday which I will subtly celebrate <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She rests in my home town with my father and both are much missed <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I still have hundreds of her letters and cuttings to remember her by <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which I keep in a velvet lined box along with many family photographs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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