Word: hewitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loneliest sea beach in New England" (Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard?) to walk its sands while memorizing the whole play. Death took this gracious person, and he is grievously missed. The part of Choregos, which is probably the heaviest in the drama, was then assumed by Mr. Frank Hewitt Birch, who started from scratch without one word of Greek, sang Mr. Lodge's ingenious music most movingly, especially his lament for the King, and, at expiry of the final performance, fainted back stage. "Cold water on my face and a shot of whiskey in my gullet knocked...
ELIZABETH CHAPMAN HEWITT Williamsville...
Single & Happy. Perhaps influenced by the fact that she was born only seven miles from Stratford-on-Avon, Miss Hewitt was stage-struck all her life, but considered herself too plain-looking for acting. "She looked like Churchill," said an old friend, "and when she got mad, like Queen Mary." Quitting the theatrical fringe of London in 1892, Miss Hewitt sailed for America to tutor the children of a Tuxedo Park family and then to teach small groups of children who met in socialite New York apartments. She started Miss Hewitt's Classes in 1920, backed by loans (soon...
...spinster who unapologetically "traded on my love for children," Miss Hewitt prospered. Her love of the theater encouraged such later stars as Julie Harris and Lee Remick (class of '53), while her firm stage manager's hand gave it the reputation as a "good solid school for girls," which attracted Oveta Gulp Hobby's daughter Jessica, Edsel Ford's daughter Dodie, and 489 other graduates whose fathers paid fees up to $1,300 a year for day sessions and $3,000 for boarding...
Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her death. Miss Hewitt had mailed her own obituary to Mrs. Ogden Reid, onetime publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...