Earnest Albert Hooten

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Lyttelton Theatre, the first of the three theatres inside the National Theatre building to be opened, the others being the Cottesloe and the Olivier. Named after Lord Chandos (Oliver Lyttelton), the first Chairman of the National Theatre Board, it is a traditional picture-frame theatre seating 890 in two tiers, and has an adjustable proscenium with an opening which can range from 34 to 45 ft., a stage height of from 16 up to 29 ft., and a depth of 51 ft. Although its opening production in 1976 was Hamlet with Albert Finney, it is used mainly for new plays and modern classics, the former including Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce (1977), later seen in the West End, and Way Upstream (1982); David Hare's Plenty (1978), A Map of the World (1983), and The Secret Rapture (1988); Alan Bennett's Single Spies (1988); and David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (1989). Outstanding revivals have included Ben Travers's Plunder (1978); Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1979); Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version (1980) with Alec McCowen and Geraldine McEwan; and Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1988). There have also been notable productions of older classics such as Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife (1980) with Dorothy Tutin and Geraldine McEwan; Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1982) with Judi Dench; and Chekhov's Wild Honey (1984) with Ian McKellen. In 1990 it staged Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

Earnest Albert Hooten , 1887–1954, American anthropologist, b. Clemansville, Wis.; grad. Lawrence College, 1907, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1911, Rhodes scholar, 1910–13. He began teaching at Harvard in 1913 and became professor of anthropology in 1930, a post he held until his death. Hooten is known particularly for his researches on early man and primates. He also sought by meticulous study to establish scientifically a correlation between body build and social, cultural, and racial factors. He is the author of Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands (1925), Up from the Ape (1931, rev. ed. 1946), Apes, Men, and Morons (1937), Crime and the Man (1939), Man's Poor Relations (1942), Young Man, You are Normal (1945), and with collaborators, The Physical Anthropology of Ireland (1955).