[Lancey Howard]

Wyatt came from a New York family of social distinction. Her father was a Wall Street investment banker and her mother was a drama critic, while one of her ancestors, Rufus King, had been a Presidential candidate. Among her other forebears were the van Rensselaers and the Livingstons, two of the most prominent families in New York City and State. She was also a cousin of Franklin Roosevelt. Her mother was a Catholic convert, and her father ultimately converted as well, although Jane did not attend Catholic schools.

Jane was raised from the age of three months in New York City, attended the fashionable Chapin School and later Barnard College. After two years of college, she left to join the apprentice school of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where for six months she played a varied assortment of roles.

One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of Trade Winds - a career move that cost her her listing in the New York Social Register (her name was later relisted).

Can somebody fill me in - - what is a "social register"? Thanks.

[Eepsy]

Sounds like it was the breeding book.

[Bubba_Leroy]

what is a "social register"?

How do you get listed in the Social Register?

[Ready4Freddy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Register

[spectre]

When you're dropped from the social register, it means you don't get invited to all the in crowd's parties anymore..It's quite an embarrassment...LOL!

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