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...WOMEN by CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
...play calls for a blonde seductress, and they cast it with a sultry brunette," complained Clare Boothe Luce. "Now they're trying to persuade me to rewrite it for her. I would have thought that no one would ask me to rewrite the characters of a play that is 37 years old." She paused before adding the obvious: "I, of course, have no intention of doing it." Once as famous for her sharp tongue as for her beauty, she is mellower now (she celebrated her 70th birthday this month), but not so mellow as to rewrite her best-known...
...Broadway hit of the 1930s, The Women was one of the earliest Women's Liberation plays in the U.S. After countless performances throughout the world, The Women returns to Broadway this week. TIME Associate Editor Gerald Clarke talked with its author, Clare Boothe Luce...
From the start, the relationship between Clare and her husband's magazines was uncomfortable. To show their independence, the editors were often snide when they referred to her. Luce himself bridled at their treatment of his wife, but refused to interfere. Eventually, it was decided by all involved that the best course was simply to ignore her, a policy that was broken only when it was necessary to chronicle her career as war correspondent, Congresswoman from Connecticut, Ambassador to Italy, an early scuba diver and a leading, often controversial figure in the conservative wing of the Republican Party...
Flying in from her home in Hawaii, Clare Boothe Luce caught a Philadelphia performance of the Broadway-bound revival of her 1936 hit The Women. Later in Manhattan, dozens of old and new friends, including Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits, Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr., Author David Halberstam, Director Joshua Logan and his wife, gathered at "21" to celebrate Mrs. Luce's 70th birthday. The party was given by her stepson Henry Luce III and New York City Parks Commissioner Richard Clurman and his wife. Actress Ilka Chase toasted Mrs. Luce for providing "the best 18 months...