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Show WAS A BIT apprehensive as I walked up to the Birdcage, the big house high above Beverly Hills where Katharine Hepburn lives. For all practical purposes, she had not talked to an interviewer about_her personal_life since she won an Academy Award for “Morning Glory” 30 years ago. Since then, Miss Hepburn has been nominated for Oscars eight times (including this year for ~~ “Long Day’s Journey into Night”), yet she has remained the mystery woman of Hollywood, granting few interviews—and even then volunteering little more than professional opinions about her work. But for some inexplicable reason, the afternoon | saw her she was in a mellow and talkative mood, willing to discuss anything. Wheninterviewed 30 years ago, Miss Hepburn struck back at what she considered an invasion of her privacy by telling the reporter that she had been married 3 times and had 10 children. This time, however, ‘she discussed her one unsuccessful marriage with little hesitation: “It happened in 1928 and lasted six years. Unfortunately, we had no children.” Her husband was Ludlow Smith, an industrial engineer. Sinee_then, she never has been even close to matrimony. ATHARINE is a mystery not K only to the public but to her co-workers as well. Only a handful of people are close to her—among them-George Cukor, who-directed some of her most successful pictures, and Spencer Tracy, with whomsheco-starred in eight films. Her other friends are not in the entertainment industry. Hollywood’s Mystery No star has been more Woman adroit at dodging personal questions, but here the curtain surrounding herprivatelife lifts a little—as she gives her first really revealing interview in 30 years By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER In all Katharine’s years in Hol- as Swany girls have learned this secret well: you never have a care with Tampax® internal sanitary protection. Nothing can show, no one can know. Odor can’t form. In’ fact, Tampax all but makes you forget about differences in days of ‘the month. Danting, dating or staying-outlating, Tampax can prove real blessing. Why notjoin the millions of young moderns who use it? Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Massachusetts. : tx Theatre dress by Rappi lywood, she never has been to a night club, and she admits, “I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I’ve been to a restaurant.” What’s more, she has ignored the folkways of filmland by never attending a movie premiére. Her_reason: “J don't want to go. I just wasn’t brought up that way. My family never went out; we always had a very good time at home. When I go out, I get excited and it gives me indigestion.” Yet when you meet Katie, you find. there.. is. nothing -.of. the dour recluse about her. She is a vigorous, exciting, and hospitable woman, whorefers to her California home and her town houses in 10 Family Weekly, May 12, 1963 In “Long Day's Journey into Night,” Miss Hepburn plays the tormented mother. |