Word: hedgerow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable...
...rustic freedom to which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But Selina and Moira have imaginative resources of which the envied farm girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge, for Selina at least, glimpses of the ancient lyric dream of Albion. But for all that, the girls squabble like fury now & then, kick violently against their nurse's pricks. When the children get the notion that...