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I, there, can you steer me to East Pembroke?" The speaker, a tall, angular girl of seventeen with high-cheek bones and an untidy reddish mane was new to the campus she eagerly surveyed. "Over there? Thanks. I guess you can see I'm only a frosh and rather new around here."
(Above) The handsome "lad" on the right is Katie, all set for the leading male role in Bryn Mawr's presentation of "The Truth About The Blayds." The entire cast is with her. Left you see the Hepburn looking very lovely as Pandora in "The Woman of the Moon," another college play. Katharine's next picture is "The Little Minister."
BEING THE INTIMATE AND HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ANECDOTES OF HEPBURN'S COLLEGE DAYS
She smiled an oddly arresting smile, picked up her suitcase and loped in the direction of "over there" with a rather reckless display of leg. But legs were merely legs in that era. The time was September, 1924.
Four years later a group of serious-eyed, black-garbed young women sat at Bryn Mawr's forty-third commencement, listening to a distinguished speaker discuss "Ten Years After Your Graduation — What ?" And among them might have been singled out that same oddly-arresting former "frosh" of the "Hi, there, can you steer me?" episode above.
What in particular lay ahead of her, as gleaned from her college performance and the casual rating of her mates ?
Had she drawn any college honors? No. Her marks were mediocre.
Had she claimed any letters in athletics? No. Her interest in sports had been almost a minus quantity.
Had she shown any dramatic ability, or even interest in the undergraduate dramatics? (Continued on page 96)