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...living partly on sea biscuit, he managed to earn a Ph.D. at Columbia. Later he got a job at Bryn Mawr, published his first textbook, wrote a delicately worded book on prostitution for a group of Manhattan reformers called the Committee of Fifteen. After a brief return engagement at Columbia, he headed west ("You are making a great mistake," cried Nicholas Murray Butler). He taught at Nebraska, in Texas, in Chicago, became head of the economics department at Stanford, finally returned east to teach at Cornell. With Walter Lippmann, he also became one of the first editors...
Kate was largely educated by private tutors. When she arrived at Bryn Mawr as a freshman, she knew neither what to do nor what to expect. To nerve herself for her first appearance in the dining room, she put on a flame-colored dress and made a queenly, solo entrance. In the stunned silence, an upperclassman said clearly: "Ah, conscious beauty!" It was months before Kate could bring herself to return to the dining room...
...Bryn Mawr has high scholastic standards, and Kate very nearly flunked out. Then she discovered that, to act in the college plays, she had to get high grades. She got them. She also alternated between living like a hermit and making a public show of herself. Sometimes she would wait until the rest of the dormitory was asleep before she would take a bath. But once, she took a bath in the library fountain and rolled herself dry on the grass. She got away with that one. But when she was caught smoking a cigarette (her first), she was suspended...
...Room Walkup. Graduated from Bryn Mawr and determined to be a great actress, Kate pursued the theater with such intensity and such conviction as her fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked...
Divorcement was an unexpected success. The nation's moviegoers took to the nasal voice, the angular face, the Bryn Mawr accent. Kate's second film, Christopher Strong, was a flop. But then she won an Oscar for her acting of the stagestruck girl in Morning Glory. As Jo in Little Women, her performance was so moving that Tallulah Bankhead knelt to congratulate...