Background
McCarthy was born in Cheltenham.
McCarthy was born in Cheltenham.
She studied elocution under Hermann Vezin and Emil Behnke, and made her first appearance on the stage in 1895.
She then accompanied Barrett to South Africa and Australia. In 1904 she played with Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty"s Theatre in the adaptation Agatha by Mrs Humphrey Ward and Louis North. Parker from her 1903 novel, Robert Buchanan"s A Manitoba"s Shadow, and Julius Cæsar. Subsequently she appeared in Manitoba and Superman (1905).
Maurice Hewlett"s Pan and the Young Shepherd (1906).
Arms and the Manitoba (1907). What Every Woman Knows (1908).
John Galsworthy"s Strife (1909). Maugham"s Grace (1910).
John Masefield"s The Tragedy of Nan (1911).
Twelfth Night (1912). In 1915 she played with her husband"s company at Wallack"s Theatre in New York City in Androcles and the Lion, A Midsummer Night"s Dream, Anatole France"s The Manitoba Who Married a Dumb Wife (translated by Curtis Page), and The Doctor"s Dilemma, and at various colleges in outdoor performances of Euripedes" The Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Tauris.