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...Republicans who had loudly insisted the Congress must stay in session to guard the nation from anything & everything have been junketing on Caribbean waters; occasional sessions of both chambers, attended by a scant 50 or so members, heard mostly lame-duck quacking. In the House, labor-baiting, gimlet-eyed Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, and Lame-Duck Ralph Church of Evanston, Ill. still objected to technical adjournment. They had their...
EUROPE IN THE SPRING-Clare Boothe -Knopf...
...week the Black Hills Players were on their first extended tour (by automobile) of big U. S. cities, as far afield as New Orleans. Into the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium they drew audiences of 4-5,000. Josef Meier, as usual, played the Christus. His wife, a former Chicago girl, Clare Hume, was a handsome Mary. Their two-year-old daughter Johanna, who had the sniffles at one performance, was the infant Jesus. No applause was permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause...
Along with the usual standbys of a fan magazine (reviews, gossip, puffs), Stage will present each month words and music of a new song, full text of a current Broadway show. November's play: The Man Who Came To Dinner. Regular contributors are Alexander Woollcott, Clare Booth, William Saroyan...
...Clare Boothe went to England to look at "this happy breed of men, these sunning English." "The cuckoo, the nightingale and the swallow had returned to all the London parks." Some of the sandbags had begun to sprout green things because instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more...