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...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...
...brother Bill who is eleven months old yells out, "Hey, Mom, for the love of Pete, give that brat some milk, how can we menfolk get our rest with all that catter-walling...
...menfolk except newspaper editors are heels in "The Lady From Cheyenne," with the result that the old West is going hell-for-leather to the dogs. It takes indignant women, storming from the home with cocked parasols, to transform the wild country into the good, solid U. S. A. Happily, the writers of this movie do not actually believe their legend, confessing in a whimsical prologue that they only "like to think so." Their product is thus an agreeable cross between the conventional horse-opera and a humorous study of the woman suffragette...
Spiked last week were two alibis for not going to church. At Goldsboro, N. C., where his flock pleaded shabby clothes, a Negro preacher set one Sunday a month when he and the menfolk will come in overalls, the women in calico. At Sturgis, Mich., where laggards pleaded lack of transportation, the Church of the Nazarene bought...
Last week, when the Women's National Championship was played at the Wee Burn Club in Noroton, Conn., the topflight women golfers of the U. S. could look the menfolk square in the eye. Redheaded, 21-year-old Patty Berg, No. 1 woman golfer, was unable to defend her title because of a recent appendectomy. But there were 198 other girls (including the champions of two foreign countries) who kept the galleries beguiled. Outstanding were...