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...time came for flag rank he was made skipper of the old Nevada. From then on he wore the broad stripe of Admiral's rank as he settled down in the Navy's top drawer-Naval War College, operations officer to the CINCUS (Admiral A. J. Hepburn), Director of War Plans, observer in London (with the temporary rank of vice admiral...
...shortcomings of the story, those of the direction succeed in destroying whatever vitality was originally there. Miss Swanson is made to parade back and forth across the stage in search of either a cigarette or an ash-tray in a manner that resembles Mac West imitating Katie Hepburn. This is a great shame, since Miss Swanson has a definite personality of her own which appears all too infrequently. When the influence of the director is apparently absent, she does a very fine job, particularly in the opening of the third act. Her limited knowledge of the stage permitted the director...
...United Artists), William Le Baron (now sparking 20th-century Fox), Sam Briskin (who has helped put Columbia into the big money), Joan Fontaine (whom R.K.O. once had for practically nothing a week—as Hollywood salaries go—but had to borrow back last year at $75,000 for Suspicion), Katharine Hepburn, Jack Oakie, ired Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
Adapted from Julian Thompson's The Warrior's Husband, in which Katharine Hepburn made her first Broadway success a decade ago, By Jupiter makes smirking and off-color copy-which soon palls and sometimes offends-of Playwright Thompson's inverted world of ancient Amazons where the women are bold and rakish warriors and their menfolk coy and high-voiced homebodies. It winds up with a real War-Between-the-Sexes in which the invading Greeks make proper women of the Amazons by stealing the magic girdle that is the source of their strength...
...this case the boys really had something to build on. The plot is based on "The Warrior's Husband," a farce by Julian S. Thompson, acted on Broadway some ten years back by Katherine Hepburn. The time is the B. C.'s; Hippolyta is Queen of the Amazons, that tribe of women warriors who thought that man's place was in the home. She marries shy, sissified Sapiens, son of Pomposia, who has a corner on the spear and arrow market, in order to get the necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears...