ABSTRACT
The year is 1924. British-born Margaret Webster is in England appearing with Sybil Thorndike in The Trojan Women, performing the following year as one of Queen Gertrude’s ladies in the London revival of John Barrymore’s Hamlet. In the same year, Uta Thyra Hagen, born in Göttingen, Germany, moves with her family to the college-town of Madison, Wisconsin, in the United States, where she later appears in productions of the University of Wisconsin High School and, during the summers, performs in plays with the Wisconsin Players. José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón, who grew up in a small town on the coast of Puerto Rico, is studying at an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland before entering Princeton University where he matriculated in 1933, five years before he and Hagen wed.
