TV as herself for an NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcast on March 22, 1952 She was also interviewed three times for the radio program Stage Struck, hosted by Mike Wallace. Awards and honors Katharine Cornell was one of three actresses awarded in the first Tony Awards (1947, award year 1948); her award was received for her performance in Antony and Cleopatra. She was also honored with the first New York Drama League Award in 1935 for her performance as Juliet. In March 1937, The Chi Omega sorority's National Achievement Award was given to her by Eleanor Roosevelt at a White House reception. Cornell was awarded a medal "for good speech on the stage" by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received a citation as Woman of the Year by the American Friends of the Hebrew University in 1959. After her role in St. Joan, she was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Elmira College Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Hobart. Clark University, Ithaca College and Princeton awarded degrees in the 1940s, and Baylor University, Middlebury College and Kenyon College awarded theirs in the 1950s. On January 10, 1974, she received the American National Theater and Academy's National Artist Award for "her incomparable acting ability" and for "having elevated the theater throughout the world." In 1935, when the University of Buffalo was still a private institution, she was awarded the Chancellor's Medal of the University. The Artvoice, a weekly arts newspaper in Cornell's native Buffalo, each year awards the Katharine Cornell Award to a visiting artist for outstanding contribution to the Buffalo theatrical community. The townhouse at 23 Beekman Place that Cornell and her husband lived in for many years has a historical marker in honor of their importance to New York City. Katharine Cornell was one of the original members elected into the American Theatre Hall of Fame upon its establishment in 1972. Biographies Katharine Cornell I Wanted to Be an Actress, 1939 by Random House. Guthrie McClintic Me & Kit, 1955 by the Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown Company. Lucille M. Pederson Katharine Cornell: A Bio-bibliography, 1994 by the Greenwood Press Gladys Malvern Curtain Up! The Story of Katharine Cornell, 1943 by Julian Messner, Inc., and includes a foreword by Cornell. Igor Stupnikov Ketrin Kornell, 1973 by Leningrad, Iskusstvo, Lening Inspired by The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Virginia Woolf wrote Flush: A Biography, 1933, by