Katherine Emmet

Katherine Emmet (March 13, 1878 – June 6, 1960) was an American actress on stage, in film, and in television, and a director of radio plays.

Early life Emmet was born in San Francisco, California. Her mother Harriet H. Hubbell was a physician in that city. Her father was said to be a descendant of Betsy Ross. Emmet attended Stanford University, with further studies in France and Monte Carlo.

Career Acting Emmet had a long and varied career on stage in New York. "Audiences today have tabloid minds," she explained in 1927, "and, whether we like it or not, we must cut the classics to a length that they will tolerate, if we want them to be interested at all." She also directed Sheridan's The School for Scandal for the same radio program. She was later in the cast of radio soap operas, including Our Gal Sunday (1937–1955) and Front Page Farrell (1941–1942).

Other activities Stage stars discuss plans for great third Liberty Loan Drive; from left to right, Mrs. Joseph Grismer, Julia Arthur, Rachel Crothers, Katherine Emmet, Chairman; Mary Cecil, and Jessie Busley Emmet called herself "a good suffragette", but "non-militant — don't forget to put the non-militant part in", she reminded a reporter in 1913. She owned a dairy farm in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1910s. During World War I, she sold Liberty Bonds, and served on the board of Stage Women's War Relief. She and Edith Wynne Matthison resigned from the board of directors at the Actors' Theatre in New York in 1928, in a contract dispute. The following year, she gave testimony at the state legislature against Sunday performances in New York theatres.

Personal life "If I say I am not married", Emmet told a reporter asking about her personal life in 1913, "people will wonder why I am an old maid. So I shall not tell you." She was married in 1914, to artist and educator Alon Bement, who was an early mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe. She was widowed in 1954, and she died in 1960, aged 82 years, in New York City.