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PAST IMPERFECT-Ilka Chase-Doubleday, Doran...
...best-selling books in the U.S. last fortnight was Radio Actress Ilka Chase's Past Imperfect. Word had gone forth that this hodgepodge personal history is as broad as it is high, and generously peppered with peephole patter about everybody from the late William Alexander Percy (Lanterns on the Levee) to café society's Lady Mendl and Hollywood's George Cukor...
Quaker Girl. Author Chase is the end-product of a long line of Quakers. Among them was famed Quaker Author John Woolman, but Ilka prefers her great-grandmother, who was "something of a glamor girl." During the Civil War, Great-grandmother ran away from her children and husband (a strict Abolitionist) and married a Southern doctor. She raised him a family in Florida, and when he died, returned to remarry Great-grandfather. "This," says Author Chase, "seems to me nice going at any time, but in that day and age a truly remarkable feat." Great-grandmother died, age 92, from...
...book of reminiscences, Past Imperfect (Doubleday, Doran; $3), broadcasting Actress Ilka Chase cut loose from the Nice Nellyism required by radio, let her pen run on without inhibitions. Sample (of her youthful meeting with Novelist George Moore): "Moore was a spindly-legged, pot-bellied, bejowled little man, and he unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose...
...program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week period on the air under the sponsorship of Camel Cigarettes...