Marian trained at a London school of Drama in the 1950\u2019s and part of her life has been spent in the theatre.\u00a0 <\/span>She amused and entertained with stories of her early days when, as a girl from Dorset, she was told she had to \u2018do something about her accent\u2019, though the posh debutante accent she first learned didn\u2019t always work to her advantage!<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>The 5 hats she had brought came into their own as she used them as props.\u00a0 <\/span>The first hat to be unveiled was a riding hat and she gave an amusing recitation of a poem describing a young girl\u2019s first gymkhana event.\u00a0 <\/span>Next came her mother\u2019s hat from 1926 and a rendition of The Young Visitors by Daisy Ashford. She had everyone laughing with a story against herself of her hunt for a hat to wear to a wedding \u2013 the fascinator she bought was quickly dismantled and added to a straw hat to produce the hat Monica wears in the picture.\u00a0 <\/span>This was followed by her grandmother\u2019s best black funeral hat to which she had added a veil and she spoke words of Granny Trill and Granny Wallon from Laurie Lee\u2019s Cider with Rosie.\u00a0 <\/span>And the final rendition was jenny Joseph\u2019s poem, \u2018When I am old I shall wear purple\u2019, delivered wonderfully wearing a purple cape and a red hat.<\/span><\/p>\n
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