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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10p.m., ABC). Old Acquaintance, with Ilka Chase and Dorothy Gish...
...offers a lively, unrehearsed half-hour. In the Schenectady days, authors & critics often rode up as chatty chums, returned to Manhattan in sullen silence. Fannie Hurst once advised the critics of her Lonely Parade to "go crawl back into the wall, where you came from." Whit Burnett left garrulous Ilka Chase speechless when he told her that her In Bed We Cry was "written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that...
...already badly gone. The next part . . . to break up [will be] that of the masses. Evidence indicates that our middle-class family system has reached its maximum demoralization. . . . The ethical content of recent middle-class family problem novels is really surprising. Even the superficial characters drawn by Ilka Chase are always 'crying...
...Married. Ilka Chase, 41, willowy, whimsical radio and stage actress, author of boudoir best-sellers (Past Imperfect, In Bed We Cry); and Dr. Norton S. Brown, 42, her personal physician; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev., three days after Author Chase won a divorce from second husband William Murray. First husband: Actor Louis (The Magnificent Yankee) Calhern...
...year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that...