Picture Play Magazine (1934)

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30 HARTFORD RESENTS HEPBURN! By Andrea Arne Queen Katharine breaks another rule! She remains aloof from her home-towners, too. An inquiring reporter discovers that many citizens hardly know who she is, and gives reasons for indifference to a star who should be their pride and joy. M OAKLEY CHRISTOPH'S article "Oh, Hepburn, Behave !" in May Picture Play reminded *me that every subject has at least two angles. It made me wonder what those at the other end of the Pliolu by Bachrarl social ladder think about this matter, those Hartford people to whom the cocktail hour is only something they have read of in books and magazines, or seen on the screen, and dinner is more often than not referred to as supper. How do these people feel about Katharine Hepburn? To the end of properly answering this, I questioned many persons at random in Plartford regarding Miss Hepburn. The result is astonishing. There is an amazing indifference among people on the street regarding her ! To begin with, Katharine Hepburn admittedly is, and always has been, of the "upper crust," and it goes without saying that she would be more sympathetically regarded had she been a working girl who had made good. As it is, she had everything necessary to a girl's happiness to begin with, so what she has achieved in addition has, therefore, lost considerable of its attractiveness for the average girl in Hartford. Regarding the indifference of her home town, it was my opinion, before attempting to find proof, that everybody, high and low, was proud and happy of Katharine Hepburn's success. But when I attempted to substantiate this. I found it another story. The following are some typical questions put to Hartford residents, and their answers. Q. This is Katharine Hepburn's home town, is it not? . Ins. So I've heard. Q. Well, her home is in this city, isn't it ? Ans. I guess so. Q. Don't you know where it is? Ans. Well, yes, somewhere up on Bloomfield Avenue. Q. Where is that? Ans. Oh, somewhere off Albany Avenue on the way to Bloomfield. Q. Have you ever passed her home? Ans. I suppose so. I wouldn't know for sure. Q. Plave you ever seen Katharine Hepburn? Am. I saw one of her moving pictures. Q. How do you like her? . Ins. Oh, I guess she's all right. Q. You've never seen her in person, then? Ans. No, and I guess few Hartford people have, when you come right down to it. Continued on page 62 Hartford fans feel they have a right to pour out their adulation on the object of their admiration, but Katharine Hepburn can't take it.