![]() ![]() She persuaded a boatman to take her to the Isle of Innisfree, where she collected great branches of rowan for her gift. ![]() A young woman then, traveling by train in Ireland, it occurred to her to stop and bring a gift to the poet. ![]() She is a master of pith and anecdote, as shown in the story she tells about paying a visit to Yeats. As she spoke, her tongue sometimes darted from the corner of her mouth, reminding one perhaps of the hamadryad in Mary Poppins-the wise snake that lectures to the transfixed Banks children. She was wearing a blue-and-white flowing dress and white pumps and silver ethnic jewelry. There is something both mythic and modern about her. Before answering a question she sometimes closes her eyes as if in meditation. Once a dancer, she moves smoothly and gracefully once an actress, she speaks with the deep clear tones of another era. Pamela Travers, tall and handsome, with short whitish hair, is a strong woman of great humor and charm. Her study is at the top of the house: a white-walled room, crowded with books and papers, its austerity relieved by a modern rocking chair. Travers’s terraced house in Chelsea has a pink door, the color of the cover of Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane. Julie Andrews, Walt Disney, Pamela Travers Interviewed by Edwina Burness & Jerry Griswold Issue 86, Winter 1982 ![]()
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