Henriette Alice McCrea-Metcalf

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My Wife and Daughter, Willard Metcalf, 1917

Henrietta (Henriette) Alice McCrea-Metcalf (August 4, 1888 – May 27, 1981) was an American-born, French-raised translator; she was one of the partners of Thelma Wood and was immortalized by Djuna Barnes in Nightwood.

Biography

Henrietta Alice McCrea was born on August 4, 1888, into a wealthy Chicago family at 764 West Adams Street.[1][2] Her father was Wylie (Willis) Solon McCrea, a public utilities executive and member of the Board of Trade.[3][4][5][2] Her mother was Alice E. Snell, the daughter of A.J. Snell.[2] She had one brother, Snell McCrea.[2] When she was few months old, her mother filed for divorce, accusing her husband of cruelty, and moved with her daughter to Paris.[6][7][8][2] McCrea was at first attended a Catholic convent in Paris, and then, when she was 10 years old, at her mother's death, her father took her back to Chicago where she attended other public schools. Later she attended Mlle. Bouligny's School in Chevy Chase, Maryland. By 1906 she had returned to Europe to attend a girls' school. In Paris she became friends with actress Jane Peyton and her husband Guy Bates Post.[8] By the end of 1910 she was back in Chicago, living at 720 Lincoln Park Boulevard.[9] McCrea married and divorced twice. First, in 1911, to Willard Metcalf, a landscape painter, with whom she had two children, Addison McCrea Metcalf and Rosalind (who married Frederick Harris). Second to Marcus Goodrich, American screenwriter and novelist.[10][7][8][4][11][5][12] Before marrying Metcalf, McCrea was in a sentimental relationship with Ned Sheldon, a leading Broadway's playwright.[8] In 1952, she became the guardian of Jacobus Arnoldus .[6][13] A fan of theater and actors her collection of autographed photographs and other memorabilia is at the University of Kentucky.[7][11] She was the dramatic editor for Vanity Fair.[14] Metcalf was a translator from French into English, among her works: Alexandre Dumas' Camille and Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler.[6] She was a friend of Colette and translated La Dame aux Camélias in 1931 for Eva Le Gallienne and her Civic Repertory Theater.[15][16][17] In 1926 she was the executive secretary of the Education Committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association for Women.[18] She was interested in animal welfare and was an activist of Pet Animal Welfare Service (PAWS),[16][19] Friends of Animals[20] and Humane Society. With other activists she opened "Ye Kit and Kaboodle" at 7 Liberty Street, Bridgeport, CT; the proceedings from the selling of antiques, clothing and paintings, displayed in a colonial-motif, were to go to the care of stray animals in the area.[21] McCrea-Metcalf died on May 27, 1981.[6][7]

Legacy

Addison Metcalf founded The Henrietta Alice Metcalf Memorial Scholarship at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts to honor his mother love of the theater.[6] The Henrietta Alice Metcalf Performing Arts Photographic Collection, dated from 1880 to 1955, is hosted at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.[6][11]

References

  1. ↑ Souhami, Diana. Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007, p. 167
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Charges Her Husband With Cruelty - 12 Oct 1888, Fri • Page 9". Chicago Tribune: 9. 1888. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Derby, George; White, James Terry (1944). The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 31. J. T. White.
  4. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "22 Jan 1911, Sun • Page 21". Chicago Tribune: 21. 1911. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  5. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "Henrietta Alice Metcalf Performing Arts Photographic Collection". University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  6. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Mietka, Helena Budzynska. "Henriette and Henriette: The Life of a Woman". Henriette and Henriette: The Life of a Woman. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  7. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 De Veer, Elizabeth; Boyle, Richard J. (1987). Sunlight and shadow: the life and art of Willard L. Metcalf. Abbeville Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780896597532. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "McCrea-Metcalf - 13 Dec 1910, Tue • Page 13". The New York Times: 13. 1910. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  9. ↑ Flahardy, Jason. "Henrietta Alice Metcalf Performing Arts Photographic Collection." Explore UK. University of Kentucky Special Collections, n.d. 19 Dec. 2012, p. 1
  10. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Kentucky Review, Volume 6. University of Kentucky Library Associates. 1986. p. 86.
  11. ↑ "The longest story never told: An enigmatic author puzzles over his sequel - 12 Dec 1982, Sun • Page 295". Chicago Tribune: 295. 1982. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  12. ↑ "Jacobus Arnoldus Student, to Wed Christina H. Forde - 16 Dec 1962, Sun • Page 23". The Bridgeport Post: 23. 1962. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "Evidence Taken for Balm Suit of Carol Frink - 26 May 1936, Tue • Page 6". Chicago Tribune: 6. 1936. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  14. ↑ Souhami, Diana (2012). Natalie and Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks. Hachette UK. p. 201. ISBN 9781780878836. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  15. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Herring, Phillip F. (1995). Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Viking. p. 162. ISBN 9780670849697. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  16. ↑ "A New Camille - 25 Jan 1931, Sun • Page 30". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: 30. 1931. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  17. ↑ "Maxwell Unveils Roosevelt Tablet - 25 Jun 1926, Fri • Page 14". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: 14. 1926. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  18. ↑ "Animal Welfare Bills - 27 Aug 1965, Fri • Page 8". The Bridgeport Post: 8. 1965. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  19. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named The Bridgeport Post 1960
  20. ↑ "Shop to Benefit Humane Society - 22 Jun 1962, Fri • Page 14". The Bridgeport Post: 14. 1962. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

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