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Show Woodworth/70 at her father. "She's an actress. A pretty good one. too, from what I could gather from the article. She's your...let me see...well, she is a cousin of yours. My father's uncle's grand-daughter. Her mother was an actress, too. It was scandalous for her. In fact, I'm not sure if I ever knew what kind of actress she was. Whether it was legitimate or not. My mother used to take a very dim view of her, I do remember that. Used to tell us that the theatre was no place for a woman of proper up-bringing." "I guess that would mean that you were poorly brought up," Ruthcsays. Marty remembers her first role, as a dead person, sitting on a chair in "Our Town." She also remembers the performance that her parents came to, of the play written by a senior in the playwriting workshop about two women who slept together while they were in college. Afterwards, her parents had waited for her outside the green room. She had come out with a guy she had met during rehersals, meaning to introduce him to her parents. Ruth had told her she was a lesbian slut. Her parents had driven right back to Westfield, and she had gotten a letter from Ruth a few days later saying that she and Ned were not going to continue to pay for Marty's college education if all she was doing was "sleeping around" campus. Marty knew the threat was idle. Her college money came from a trust fund her parents had set up for her when she was born, and the money had been hers since she was eighteen. Still, her father was the one who wrote the checks from the account, and she never dared touch the money. So she hadn't gone out with that guy again after that night, and worked in the costume shop instead of trying out for parts in other plays. "Well, she's no doubt got some actress blood in her," Ned says. |