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SHE DARES TO BE DIFFERENT!
Katharine Hepburn not only dares but seeks new ways to lift herself out of the ordinary — don't miss her in "Little Women"
by MARCELLA BURKE
It Is History In Hollywood, all the tall tales that Katharine Hepburn thinks up one day and denies the next. She came out to Hollywood and decided the pastures were green and nice. She took stock of herself altogether, and then said,
"They want people to be different. I'll show them somebody who can be different. I'll be myself, and two or three other people, too."
Right away, she commenced pulling rabbits out of her hat. The first one, of course, was a rabbit dressed up in overalls, with an expensive tailor-made patch.
Let it be said right here and now, Hollywood chuckled over that rabbit. Took it home to the folks, and they chuckled over it, too. Imagine a screen siren in shabby overalls!
• It has been told, how Kate reads her fan mail in the middle of the road and how she converses with her pet monkey. But nobody ever can be entirely sure about who she is, or whether or not she has children. For a while, she said she had two children. Her husband, the charming, absent Ludlow Smith, agreed with her. Now she denies it up and down. Just who is what or where now is a question.
"Of course," she said, "you can publish the fact that I have children. I have two of them. Just as cute as they can be. Of course, they're both jet black . . . you'll have to print that too." With which weird remark, she calmly walked away. Of course, a sense of humor is a grand thing, but what will she do if somebody begins being literal-minded, and believes that? Fie!
Until the California weather went mad in a two weeks
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downpour, Katharine was to be seen daily floating about in a smock under which she wore nothing whatever but the sheerest of the sheer short panties. About the time we all decided that she was as natural as the day is long, it suddenly came out that her very visible freckles were that way because she darkened them with an eyebrow pencil. She has leaned so far over backward to be "natural" that she appears to be walking backward on her head most of the time. It is all very confusing.
She suddenly produced a prowess at golf, which no one ever suspected. She upped and challenged Irene Dunne, who is an expert player, to a game and is willing to play anybody.
People may eventually get all mixed up with this Hepburn girl. They may even forget, in the welter of marriages, no marriages, babies and no babies, monkeys, truth, whoppers and general fantasy, that this cyclonic bit of femininity can act.
But I doubt it. She admits openly that she is a terrible liar. She is a shameless exhibitionist. But, what is more important than all else, she is a great actress.
• Whatever else is or is not so about this astounding person — she has courage and strength. Early in her screen career she climbed out of her hospital bed and went to the studio against her physician's advice, and took him with her. And there she worked hard all day long in stretches of ten minutes at a time, with rest intervals of a half hour each between shots. All the sets she had to work on were pre-heated to a certain temperature. There are few people with influenza who can do that!
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