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James Curtis Hepburn of Milton, Pa. disappointed his parents by not becoming a minister. Instead, he studied medicine and got an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. But after three years of private practice, he decided to become a missionary. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him and his young wife to China. A few years later malaria forced them to return, and Dr. Hepburn settled down to 13 years of practice in New York City...
Profession of Faith. Jesuit Feeney alternately dazzled them with his erudition and convulsed them with his histrionics. He enjoyed doing impersonations of celebrities uttering incongruities (Franklin Roosevelt talking about the state of the church, Katharine Hepburn broadcasting a prizefight). All of Boston College's dismissed teachers taught at the center. Months before last fortnight's uproar, one of them, Dr. Fakhri Maluf, wrote an article for the center's quarterly publication, From the Housetops, which has been belaboring Jesuit "liberalism...
...Spitfire," Katherine Hepburn has conversation with God in a hillbilly accent. It's pretty embarrassing...
...this day of casting most roles with a tape-measure and a scale of box-office receipts, it is almost incredible to find motion pictures in which people talk and look and act just as they should. "The Little Minister" is one of them. Katherine Hepburn does the completely ingenuous ex-Gypsy girl, who wins over the young curate, with a burr in her voice and a freshness that trails heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail...
...characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...