"LITTLE WOMEN"
* The picture made from Louisa May Alcott's most fapious book and the most popular story for girls ever published in the United States, "Little Women," is attracting enormous audiences at its initial screenings in America. Katharine Hepburn is Jo, who was, Miss Aleott herself, for the novel is autobiographical, as were many of the author's other stories. Miss Hepburn finds in Jo a role in which the peculiarities of her person and temperament have an ideal outlet. Curiously, this role of .Jo, in the play made from the book, was the first in which that other Katharine who spells her name with a middle "a," Miss Cornell, made a success. .She played the part so well in William A. Brady's production of the piece she went to London to act Jo for the British public. Alice; Brady, daughter-of-Bill, was the original Meg in the play, her first important role.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)
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