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Kiss the Boys Goodbye (by Clare Boothe; produced by Brock Pemberton). The scene of a Clare Boothe play-however smart or sophisticated the sets may be-is a corpse-strewn battlefield. In The Women, warriors in Schiaparellish armor swept up & down Park Avenue, slaughtering, spreading poison gas, mowing one another down. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, a second Civil War rages about the Connecticut countryside, and this time it is Grant who hands over his sword...
Officers of the club are Clare Milton '39, president, Robert Pocsok '40, secretary, and Julian J. Leavitt '39, Robert Coquillette '39, Richard Neyes '39, and C. Gardiner Swain '40, executive committee members...
...books to succeed retiring Minority Leader Bertrand Snell; Alabama's Henry B. Steagall (who, like Chairman Doughton, has already been renominated in his Democratic district); Texas' Martin Dies, Joseph J. Mansfield, Fritz Lanham; Maine's Ralph O. Brewster; Massachusetts' Allen T. Treadway; Michigan's Clare E. Hoffman. House As of course included such stalwart laborites as-Texas' Maverick, California's Voorhis, Wisconsin's Boileau, Illinois' Kent Keller, Iowa's and Harry Hopkins' Otha Wearin, who was recently defeated for the Democratic Senatorial nomination. Also blessed by the League...
...Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth wrote a comedy (Kiss the Boys Goodbye) on the subject, scheduled for Manhattan production next season...
...then the recession came and two of the Mercury's seven angels had their wings clipped. Though Caesar was already in rehearsal, it looked as if it might never open. But Archibald MacLeish came in as liaison officer, got some fresh backing for the Mercury from Playwright Clare Boothe, Theatre Lover George Hexter...