Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELEANOR RUCKLEY YOUNG Hartford, Conn...
Whacked Children. The angularity of mind and body was hers by inheritance. She was born 42 years ago in Hartford, Conn., the second of the six children of Katharine Houghton and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a noted urologist and surgeon. Her father, a transplanted Virginian, was so moved by Brieux's crusading play about syphilis, Damaged Goods (and by the preface written to it by Bernard Shaw), that he risked ostracism by his campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate...
...Hartford's more orthodox citizens looked somewhat askance at the perpetual ferment seething in the Hepburn house, and this attitude was sometimes reflected in the brutal behavior of the neighbors' pitiless young. Kate took to shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that...
...Hartford Bound. From London, Kate is looking forward to October, when she will bring The Millionairess to the U.S. for its New York opening. She says philosophically: "It might lay an egg or it might be successful. No one can tell." And she adds: "I think it went over so well here because American vitality has a great appeal for the British. You can see that in the popularity in England of Judy Garland, Danny Kaye and others. But back home, vitality is not so bloody unique...
...personally so prominent. And it will be something where I don't have to try to sell myself, which is a humiliating endeavor, although very well paid. I've always had a strange and strong dream that if I stopped and went back to Hartford, I wouldn't remember a thing about my acting career." She paused meditatively, and added: "Not one damn thing...