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Grover Farr
NO 9-7127
Margaret MeLarty As Ei|een
Fult°n Is Good Bad Actress
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By Edith K. Benedict
Actually we here i„ Black Mountain have no claim to
fame a, far a. E.leen Fulton i. concerned although the young
lady s parent, do live here now. Too bad, her life is fa.
cinatmg, her day. are crammed to the fullest and her work
sound, so glamourous that we felt it was time to tell you
some interesting facts about the young lady.
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First of all her real name
is Margaret McLarty, daught
er of the Rev. and Mrs. James
McLarty, new pastor of the
Black Mountain Methodist
church. She claims Asheville
as her home town, possibly
because most of her life with
her family was spent there
while her father was pastor of
Asheville churches and she
attended the public schools.
Margaret is a graduate of
Greensboro College where she
majored in voice and was
soprano soloist with the glee
club. At the present she is
continuing her vocal studies
with Bernard Taylor in New
York.
“As a child she always pre
tended to be an actress”,
said her mother, “and al
though one recent news re
lease stated that I had urged
her to be a teacher, I can’t
remember trying to guide her
in this direction, “maybe so,
or perhaps she only thought
I would be disappointed if
she didn’t teach.”
At any rate, she left her
home state to study at the
Neighborhood Playhouse un
der Sanford Meisner, this fol
lowed a season in “The Lost
Colony” at Manteo. Her first
Broadway appearance “Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is
currently enjoying a success
ful run but she has played in
several off Broadway shows
such as “The Fantasticks”,
an 8 month long musical
which she loved; “Summer of
the Seventeenth Doll”, ‘Many
Loves” and “One For The
Dame”. Her TV experience
has been just as varied for
she has appeared on the Arm
strong Circle Theatre, Naked
City, True Story, Lamp Uuto
My Feet and the Dave Gar
roway show. She has been
cast as Lisa Hughes in “As
the World Turns”, not a very
likeable character but evident
ly well portrayed by Miss Ful
ton because she receives
stacks of “hate” letters after
each performance. Her stu
dio likes this too because it
indicates to them that the
viewer takes his television
seriously and this is good for
their business . It is satisfy
ing to the young actress too,
as is the woman she pictures,
she is doing her work in a
convincing manner.
There are several points
of interest here to bring to
you. Margaret has a lovely
soprano voice which only
once has the serial writer
used to advantage and this
was some time ago when Lisa
sang a lullaby to her son.
Tommy. Another interesting
thing is that people approach
her in public with remonstran
ces on her treatment of her
husdand (TV). Bus passen
gers have even been known
to change their seat to avoid
contact with the home wreck
er she pictures, as though she
had leprosy or something con
tagious.
So far there is only one
movie to her credit, “Girls
of the Night”.
“We were sorry she felt
it necessary to change her
name”, her mother said, “Al
though we understand because
it was confusing when she
first started working in New
York and she kept getting
calls for work for a Mary
McCarty, a comedienne. The
“Eileeen” came from no
where in particular, the “Ful
ton” was lifted from her
uncle Fulton Glenn of Ashe
ville.”
Mrs. McLarty has recently
returned from a visit to her
popular daughter whom she
saw in the matinee perform
ance of “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?” This is
such an exhaustingly drama
tic show there are two casts,
one for matinee, another for
evening. As Honey, a sweet
talking little housewife, she
dances a little and is fright
ened by everything.
“You can’t imagine how
hard she works”, her mother
told me, “she leaves home
before 7 in the morning and
on afternoons before her TV
show she practices from 1-6
in addition has dress rehear
sal and a third run-through—
all this while she is doing her
Broadway matinee twice a
week. Of course we are
proud of her and long for the
day to come when we can go
to a musical in which she
stars.” Neither of us saw
“The Fantasticks” and that
music is so lovely.”
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Margaret loves children and
the small child who played the
part of Tommy recently lov
ed his TV mother, too. ‘You
could just see how they loved
each other and it was so na
tural in one show that the
child said to her “You are the
nicest Mother’ ”, which wasn’t
even in the script. Tommy
has been several people over
the years because even a TV
character must change with
the years, but the little four
year-old she will remember for
years to come.
We have heard that here
and there over the town there
are spots of good and bad re
ception for television sets. Of
all places to have poor (and
from some chanels, no) re
ception the Methodist parson
age, whose occupants have an
intense interest in the 1:30
show each day would have to
be the place. To see their
actress daughter they need to
go to somone else’s setl
There has been so very
much crammed into these six
years Margaret has been in
New York I know there is
some I have omitted. One
summer there was summer
stock in which she was cast in
“Blue Denim” and most re
cent accomplishment is that
of Anne Rutledge in “Abe
Lincoln in Illinois” with Hal
Holbrook.
Another moment to remem
ber for her was the visit from
for it shows that, despicable
Noel Coward who came back
stage following a performance
of “Virginia Woolf”.
She loves New York and is
especially fond of Central
Park, near which is her apart
ment. Her mother too finds
New York a thrilling place and
naturally the visits to their
daughter and the studio in
which she works is something
to which she looks forward
with enthusiasm.
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