Show AMUSEMENTS Miss Skinner Tells of Her Stage Women It dIll was more marc than two years ago that I first had bad the Idea for the stage characterization of Henrys Henry's wives says Cornelia Otis Skinner the solo actress who will come to Kingsbury hall hail university campus March 7 InThe in inThe inThe The Wives of Henry VIn VIII It all aU happened as a result of having hay have ing read a gift gUt volume of Francis Hacketts Hackett's Henry the Eighth but I didn't realize Just how much work such a presentation would entail Until until until un un- til I had become too enthused with the Idea to give it upI up I spent the two years In reading rending all available material on the character charac charac- ter and personality of each of the six women and attempting to select the thc true from the false in order that my portrayal might be historically correct cor cor- cor reel After I began to realize what a great amount of research was required required required re re- re- re I considered asking Mr Hack ctt himself to write the sketches for forme forme forme me but since I had always prepared my ray own manuscript I went ahead on my own Ive often considered writing an article pointing out the exact counterparts counter parts which each of these six women have In certain types of the present generation continued Miss Skinner Take Anne Boleyn for instance She Is the perfect prototype of the modem modern modern mod mod- em ern made self independent woman who knows what she wants and goes out to get it and doesn't stop until she has reached her goaL oaL And Jane Seymour Seymour Sey Sey- mour Henrys Henry's third wife wife wife-it it would be a little difficult to find her type in this country She was a meek and I mild mUd girl of good family who through lack of worldly knowledge and experIence experience ex ex- ex- ex looked on all men as gods with the godly attribute of being Unable unable un Un- able to do wrong As for Katheryn Howard she was almost the flapper type Purely a creature of Impulse she seldom stopped to look before she leaped And in the end it proved her undoing Catherine of Aragon seems to Miss Skinner to be comparable with the female members of old families to whom position in society is exceedingly exceed important Anne of Cleves says Miss Skinner Skin Skin- ner ncr is not so easy to pick out unless I. I one goes to Germany She had none of the social graces common to the court ladies of ot the period Having been denied Christine of Denmark marriage to Anne of Cleves was a political po expedient made necessary by bythe bythe the growing power of Annes Anne's brother the Duke of Cleves in the border states which ran from Savoy up through Burgundy and Lorraine Henrys Henry's qualms had been somewhat subdued by the portrait of Anne done by Hans Holbein so the marriage was arranged |