Word: mccarters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With its handsomely equipped School of Dramatic Arts, or its McCarter Theatre, Yale and Princeton must look towards their Cambridge crony with pity. Harvard still inclines to a tradition of "pure" liberal arts, devoid of much practical application. But long ago colleges realized each subject can grow only in its own medium, that to write drama for an English composition course--and yet keep it divorced from the stage--is like reading chemistry without carrying on laboratory experiments. Playwrights like Sidney Howard, Eugene O'Neill and Philip Barry thrived under Professor Baker because the workshop tested their lines through informal...
Died. Mrs. Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance...
...youngest attorney general in New Jersey history, 36-year-old Thomas Mesbitt McCarter, resigned to merge the State's helter-skelter trolley and transmission lines into one concern. Today his Public Service Corp. of New Jersey is the biggest company operating entirely in the State (total assets: $686,000,000). Founder McCarter's shock of hair has turned from red to white, but his bulky, florid personality is still as dominant as ever...
...last week's directors' meeting President McCarter declared: "I feel that the time has come when I should lighten up a little." Obedient as ever, the directors created the new post of chairman of the board for Thomas McCarter, upped Vice President Edmund Waring Wakelee, a silver-haired bachelor of 69, to the presidency. This took some routine executive work from founder McCarter's tiring shoulders, but he made it clear that he remained the boss...
Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt, 23, heiress who sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon Hewitt McCarter claimed she had the operation performed because her daughter was feeble-minded and "dangerously over-sexed." The physicians who performed it were acquitted of mayhem, but Heiress Gay's $500,000 suit against her mother is still pending...