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Kate Burton chooses another word to describe the woman she's portraying at the Mitzi E. Newhouse - \"epic.\" And as the daughter of Richard Burton, she's no stranger to larger-than-life actors who are theatrical royalty. \"Cornell brought Broadway and culture to the whole country,\" she says. Burton is no slouch in the cultural exchange department herself, having starred in Broadway productions of \"The Constant Wife\" and \"Hedda Gabler\" and played all of Chekhov's three sisters as well as Shakespeare's Juliet, Isabella, Hermione and Viola. Her research suggests that Cornell was, too. \"In the end,\" says Burton, \"[Katharine Cornell] was a girl from Buffalo.\"

[Brenda Forbes], an expert at accents, worked in every decade since her first performance in 1927, including the 1990s, when she was in the movie \"The Jerky Boys.\"

CORRECTION APPENDED IN \"The Grand Manner,\" at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, Bobby Steggert plays Pete, a stand-in for the playwright A. R. Gurney during a galvanizing moment in his life. In 1948 Mr. Gurney traveled from his boarding school in New Hampshire to Manhattan, where he had a brief, nervous backstage exchange with the celebrated actress Katharine Cornell after a performance of Shakespeare's \"Antony and Cleopatra,\" an exchange that he uses as a jumping-off point in the comic drama.

Twenty years ago, Ms. [Katharine Cornell] sold Chip Chop to a friend, a New York businessman who had also spent years summering on [Martha]'s Vineyard. She stayed on the island, however, living in a more modest house that required less upkeep. Thankfully, Chip Chop's second owner has lovingly preserved the house and grounds much as the actress had left them. There are reminders of her presence everywhere. Much of the furniture in the main rooms was placed there by the actress herself. Moreover, the owner bought many objects that were originally in the house when he discovered them for sale on the island. ''To this day, I'm constantly finding curiously scribbled notes in some of her old books,'' he says. Tales of what went on at Chip Chop abound. Like the time Vivien Leigh arrived there on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As the story goes, she was in a period of deep despair. After dinner on the night she came, Ms. Leigh fled to the beach to look out at the sea. ''Kit persuaded her to come back inside, then turned on a tape recorder, and the two women began doing the mad scene from 'Hamlet,' '' the owner recalls. ''The acting was supposed to have been extraordinary. I've spent years scouring the house hoping to find the tape.''