Word: clare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Margin for Error (by Clare Boothe; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) breaks the jinx on anti-Nazi plays (five in a row flopped last season) by breaking the mold. Playwright Boothe makes everything Nazi-totsy by shifting her scene to the U. S., turning her tale into a lively mystery melodrama, and peppering it with wisecracks like those in The Women and Kiss the Boys Goodbye...
Dies Committeeman Noah Mason of Illinois proposed to have them all fired if they did not quit the League forthwith. "It is too bad," said he, recognizing that some innocents are bound to be hurt. Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman introduced a bill to bar from Federal pay rolls all members of all organizations affiliated in any degree with the widely affiliated Communist Party (or with any other outfit which would overthrow the U. S. Government). Carried to its logical extreme in public and private employment, this form of retribution would turn up millions of witches in the besplattered...
...Women" deals with the fair sex in the cynical thirties, so "The Old Maid" takes its problem back into Civil War Days and the mauve decade. It is characteristic of the two periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...
...Clare Booth's little hymn of hate about the magazine-movie game has the same politely barbaric wise-cracking of her first play, "The Women." But it has an element which "The Women" didn't have,--a well constructed plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent...
...Yale (1929) and Clare College, Cambridge, Paul Mellon read, wrote and rowed, decided on a literary career. Instead, his father got him into the Mellon National Bank. Last July he resigned as president and trustee of the National Gallery of Art at Washington (founded by Father Andrew) "because of business demands...