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How to Marry a Prince (of the theater, that is)
This must be the week for finding quotes by extraordinary women, with mothers who had pointed advice about what they needed to do (and not do) to find a husband. My mother was less direct, though no less urgent on the subject.
Kitty Carlisle Hart was a singer, actress and tireless arts advocate who died in 2007 at 96. Here is an excerpt from the Times obituary by Marilyn Berger.
As a young girl she was taken around the capitals of Europe by her mother, whose ambition was to establish her daughter in a “brilliant” marriage, preferably to a prince. There were piano lessons, voice lessons and a grounding in the dramatic arts.
When a royal husband did not materialize, Miss Carlisle recalled, her mother would tell her, “You’re not the prettiest girl I ever saw, and you’re not the best singer I ever heard, and you’re certainly not the best actress I ever hoped to see, but if we put them all together, we’ll find the husband we’re looking for on the stage.”
That indeed they did. Carlisle was married to the noted playwright and director, Moss Hart.
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