Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting play. Producer Jed Harris, active on Broadway again after two years of noisily doing nothing, had assembled a good cast, fine sets by Jo Mielziner. For his lead, he had Katharine Hepburn who had left Broadway two years ago after a modest success in The Warrior's Husband. During that interval, with four cinema roles, she had made herself the most talked-about actress in the U. S. Too young and too shy, in the presence of an audience, to seem as commanding a personality on the stage as on the screen, she gave a talented, clever...
Daughter of a well-to-do Hartford physician, Katharine Hepburn was a member of the Class of 1929 at Bryn Mawr, prefaced her one important Broadway performance in The Warrior's Husband with four small parts and several unproductive engagements as understudy. Since becoming a celebrity, she has fiercely fought to distinguish between her private and her professional life. Of her education, she says: "I never went to Bryn Mawr-that was another Katharine Hepburn." Of her husband. Insurance Broker Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she married Dec. 12, 1928 and with whom she lives in Manhattan...
...Year I fervidly nominate one justly compared with Galileo. All praise to the Happy Warrior, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and other good men and strong. But History, if not TIME, will record as Man of the Year, George Frederick Warren (TIME...
Best of three lively character parts with which the authors have enlivened the play is taken by little Porter Hall (The Warrior's Husband). Cast as a very domesticated New York detective, his manner while describing the routine horrors of a policeman's life is excruciatingly bland. "Well," he confesses to the actress's family, "we aren't much worried about this case. We don't care if one crook murders another crook- especially if they are out of town crooks." He does something for the actress her doctor could not do. He releases...
...Roeder fills in his scene with many a background high-spot : the death of Pope Alexander VI, whose corrupt old Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand...