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...Women (by Clare Boothe; Max Gordon, producer) is calculated to give the Men two of the most shockingly informative hours of their lives and is so clever that few women would willingly miss it. Its cast of 35 is entirely feminine and its subject is exactly what its title suggests. Halfway through scene i, Playwright Boothe makes a distinction between Women and Females. Mary Haines (Margalo Gillmore), a gracious and home-loving blonde with one husband, two children and a heart filled with anxiety about reaching the shady side of 30, is a woman. Most of the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Because the identity of his father was long kept a secret from him, not until four years ago did Raymond Moulton O'Brien, British-born Manhattan oilman, suspect he might be the Right Honorable the Earl of Thomond of County Clare, Ireland. Son of his mother's first husband instead of her second, as she had led him to believe, he first learned of his claim to nobility when she was unable to provide him with a proper birth certificate, admitted that she had deceived him. Because no O'Brien has claimed the peerage of Thomond since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Defending the negative side of "Resolved, That Hitler was justified in taking troops into the Rhineland" at Exeter, Crimson speakers will be Sherman M. Maisel, Clare L. Milton, Jr., and James Tobin, while Murray L. Silberstein will fill the alternate's position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 8 Freshman Speakers Chosen for Andover, Exeter Debates | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

Married. Henry R. Luce, 37, editor and publisher of TIME, the March of TIME, FORTUNE, the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, LETTERS; and Clare Boothe Brokaw, 32, playwright (see p. 68), one-time managing editor of Vanity Fair; at Old Greenwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Abide With Me (by Clare Boothe Brokaw; Malcolm L. Pearson, Donald E. Baruch, A. H. Woods, producers). Up to last week the meanest, man to walk a Broadway stage in a decade was Stanley Vance, central character of The Dark Tower (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Vance, a homosexual sadist, kept white mice in his bedroom, cowed a family living in one of Manhattan's fine old gloomy mansions, finally sent his poor wife into a trance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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