Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn

Author:Katharine Hepburn [Hepburn, Katharine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Rich & Famous, Women
ISBN: 9780307807687
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-09-28T05:00:00+00:00

With Red Hammond after the storm

Hurricane

Well--that hurricane of '38. The hurricane of '38 was a real adventure. As I said, we were at Fenwick. It was a very curious happening. That morning--late September--most of the residents had gone back to Hartford and their houses were more or less closed. I swim all winter, so the season is never closed to me. In fact, we always enjoyed it most when it was sort of empty.

I remember going for my swim at about 8 a.m. It was a very fine atmosphere. The tide was low--almost on the change. The air clear--a light breeze. The color of everything very definite. I went back in--had breakfast. Went outside. A steady wind was blowing now, but it was very pleasant.

I decided to play golf. Jack ("Red") Hammond had come for a weekend in July, and here it was late September and he was still with us. We had a good time together and he was a good golfer and a pretty good tennis player and so was I. So we had fun.

Oh, there's a great story I must tell you about Red's father, Judge Hammond. He was at the theatre alone in Boston. When the curtain went up, the woman sitting in front of him was obviously not intending to remove her hat.

Finally he tapped her on the shoulder and said, "I beg your pardon but would you remove your hat? I can't ..."

She indicated by a rude hand gesture that he should desist.

What to do? What to do? Ah, yes.

He took his own hat and put it on. A folding top hat. Immediately the people in back of him whispered: "Take off that hat! Take off that hat!"

The woman in front of the Judge immediately took off her hat. The Judge then happily removed his. I think he must have been a very smart judge, don't you?

Now to continue the hurricane of '38.

Out we went to play golf. Red and I. By then I noticed that the wind had become, well, really quite strong. On the par three ninth, I made a very good drive, high, and it looked as if it had dropped right on the green. When we got there, we didn't see the ball. Where was it? I was sure--Oh my golly--look! In the hole--I got a hole in one. Can you imagine! That meant thirty-one on the nine holes. Certainly it was my record. We went home delighted. Let's take a swim. The tide was half in by now and the waves were beginning to be waves. "You know," I said to Jack, "that wind is really quite strong. I can lean against it and it holds me up."

We jumped the waves--Wow! What fun. We had a time holding ourselves upright. The water was lovely and we stayed in quite a while. When we got out and dressed, we realized that the atmosphere was really strong and getting stronger. The sand was beginning to blow. It stung as it hit us.

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