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...Philadelphia Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Come on back, Katie, all is forgiven. This absolution was spoken last fortnight by one Harry Brandt, an independent Manhattan cinema theatre owner who two years ago gave Hollywood the jitters by proscribing Actress Katharine Hepburn and ten other cinemarvels as box-office poison. Mr. Brandt's reprieve came after watching the longest line in the eight-year history of the Radio City Music Hall queued up during a spell of foul weather to pay top prices for a view of Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. When, after its first four days...
...Francisco press had raised such a hue & cry that Dr. Heil's superior, Architect Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, ordered the picture hung again. Said he: "We have been unable to verify reports that the Navy objected." Said the Navy (an aide to Admiral Arthur Hepburn) : "What fools we'd be. We've learned from earlier foolish Navy squawks against other Cadmus paintings. It does us no good and merely gives the artist publicity." Said Paul Cadmus in Manhattan: "I don't think it libels the Navy. Nobody expects or wants the Navy to be made...
...Made Mitchell Hepburn majority leader...
...much for Canada to offer as a sacrifice on the altar of liberty and freedom. . . . The success of the Allied cause may be very doubtful unless at an early date the active participation of the United States is made effective." Even ever burbling and often indiscreet Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn of Ontario was vexed at this latest burble of old Mr. Conant, explained that he believed his Attorney General had become "deeply disturbed" while witnessing the departure of Canadian officers (one of whom was his brother-in-law and another his private secretary) for service in World...
When The Players revived it in Manhattan in 1933, Critic Percy Hammond claimed he detected tears in the eyes of such sophisticates as Edna Ferber, Rollin Kirby, Katharine Hepburn...