Evening star., 1936-06-20
700 STORIES SOLD
That's the Record of Phyllis Moore Gala
CHER, Washington Girl, Who Never
Had Rejection From Editors

Phyllis Gallagher probably is the
only writer in the history Of our times
who have never yet received a rejec-
ton slip.
And yet she studies English for
three months every Fall under a
woman who goes TO Summer school
at Columbia University.
Il have to write about localities I
know" Phyllis Gallagher says, That
is why the scenes Of so many Of my
stories are laid in Washington"
Her first story, "Stubby Fingers"
was laid in Painpol, France, where
fishermen leave for Iceland seasonally.
Phyllis Gallagher went to a finishing
school and studied art in France.
living there six years.
The young writer's friends must
find bits of their lives, or scraps of
their conversation, or even clothes
from their wardrobeS, in her stories
now ana then. Unconsciously she
puts her immediate life into her
fiction.
"One of my friends asked me re-
Gently if realize that every one Of
my heroes are blond" she said.
Thinking my magazine heroes over,
am forced to admit my friend was
right"
Mrs. Gallagher, who is expecting
her first child in October, says that
the unWritten serial novel due at the
syndicate in December has as char
acters a child and an obStetrician.
She does not believe that she has
ever put a child in a story before,
but thinks that from now on they
will be romping on and of her pages
constantly.
A THOUGH Phyllis Gallagher's
characters and the situations
they get themselves into are sketched
with the lightning fingers of talent,
and have something inevitable about
them. she selects the scenes of their
activities with an eye to the varied
interests of people living in all sec
tions Of the country. All the way
from California to Maine, these people
turn to the same newspaper serial
in their Sunday morning papers. and
she believes they like running into
their own cities, mountains or coast
lines now and then.
Her latest serial, Afraid of Love
starting IN The Star next Wednesday
has among its characters a naval
aviator, scientist, a society woman
of wealth, a titled foreigner and a
Metropolitan Opera singer. The Navy
background, Phyllis Gallagher ex-
plains, is intended to interest people
on both oceans. Scenes are laid OF
land and sea. in Reno, at a Southern
home and a Fifth avenue drawing
room, on a scientific expedition, at the
theater and even at a New England
husking bee.
Phyllis Gallaghers tremendous out
put of fiction has never appeared il
the wood pulp" periodicals often as
sociated with mass production, but
has been published in slick paper
u7agazines and Newspapers. She has
written for score of women's maga-
zines. College Humor, Hollands. Brit
ish publications, and has been trans
lated for French periodicals.
CHE believes that her success-witt
which she is not yet satisfied
may be due partly to the fact that she
writes about types of people she knows
and likes. In her opinion only the
rarest author of so years Of age can
write convincingly about 19-year olds
The high school patter of today, Phyl.
lis Gallagher says she has discovered
from her young brother, is like a new
language.
Born in Waynesboro, Va, in 1907
Phyllis Gallagher has lived in Wash.
ington most of her life, and now oc.
cupies an apartment at the WardmaF
Park Hotel.
She makes light Of her literary con.
quests, prefering to regard herself az
a novice, because she has been writ
ing only three years.
The charming first lady of the syn.
dicates is as justified in that attitude
however, as a general who refuses te
be decorated for winning battle, pro.
testing that he didn't take lonI
enough.