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Soon after she returned to the U.S. from her hit London stage run in The Millionairess, Katharlne Hepburn entered Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Said officials: "She's all right." The attending physician: Kate's father, Dr. Thomas Hepburn...
...years ago, Kate dazzled Broadway and the road as Rosalind in As You Like It. This week, in London, she is playing to packed houses and critical huzzahs in the title role of Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess. Written in 1935 when Shaw was a spry septuagenarian, the play deals with a forceful, bossy young woman who makes her own rules and discards husbands and lovers the way other people discard paper napkins. The play was considered indifferent Shaw and dull theater until Kate turned it into a personal triumph. The critics drowned in their own superlatives: "A blockbusting...
Hartford Bound. From London, Kate is looking forward to October, when she will bring The Millionairess to the U.S. for its New York opening. She says philosophically: "It might lay an egg or it might be successful. No one can tell." And she adds: "I think it went over so well here because American vitality has a great appeal for the British. You can see that in the popularity in England of Judy Garland, Danny Kaye and others. But back home, vitality is not so bloody unique...
...Touring England in George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, Actress Katharine Hepburn got an invitation in New-castle-on-Tyne to step out with 350 visiting sailors from two U.S. destroyers. Resourcefully she barred all visitors to her hotel room, had her phone disconnected, rushed straight back into seclusion after the show. Later she explained: "I fear no man. I hate being crowded by people, and sailors are people...
Dressed in jacket and well-creased slacks, highstrung Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn boarded the liner America for England, where she will play the lead in a Liverpool production of Shaw's The Millionairess. "I've always wanted to do this part," twanged Katy. "This is a wonderful character embodying everything in me that people dislike, but which I like very much...