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...DIED. Ilka Chase, 72, ultrasophisticated actress, author and wit; of internal hemorrhage; in Mexico City. While pursuing an acting career on stage (The Women, Forsaking All Others) and screen (Now, Voyager; Fast and Loose), Chase wrote more than a dozen books, including her memoirs Past Imperfect. The self-image she projected was that of a cool, sharp-tongued woman. If Journalist Dorothy Thompson didn't know as much as God, Chase once remarked, she most certainly knew as much...
...sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense that there is more here than period grace, that this is a piece to be acted, not condescended to. Modern audiences are seldom spoken to as Coward spoke...
...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 of my life," her starring role in the original production of The Women. Having blown out the one candle on her cake, Mrs. Luce said that she had been "37 years before my time" with the theme of love...
...years on the air, Virginia Graham has brought on girls of such luster and bluster as Ilka Chase, Pearl Buck, Betsy Palmer, Marya Mannes, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Hermione Gingold - all of whom have variously contributed to Girl Talk's success as the brightest female panel discussion in television. Last week, at the urging of her ABC packagers ("They thought the show needed a little goosing-up"), Virginia introduced her first male panelist, David Merrick. The show bombed (Merrick was positively fatuous), and at its close, Virginia asked for a mail-in referendum on further gentlemen callers...
...1960s. Right now, the rage across the U.S. is beef Wellington, a filet slathered with pate de foie gras and baked in a pastry crust. Manhattan Hostess Mrs. Bartley C. Crum, who sends out Menus by Mail to 6,000 subscribers in 45 states (among them: Jacqueline Kennedy, Ilka Chase and Pauline Trigere), currently recommends beef Wellington along with Indonesian pork sate, but varies her suggestions with more unusual dishes, such as Peruvian seviche (cold raw bay scallops marinated in the juice of limes, lemons and oranges) and Arabian chicken, roasted with cloves, honey and bacon...