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...Ilka Chase-Doubleday, Doran...
...Ilka Chase's first novel is the liveliest agitation of stamens and pistil since the last flowering of the night-blooming cereus. Like the heady perfumes of its heroine (a chrome-plated Manhattan cosmetician), In Bed We Cry derives its strength from a dash of civet. The plot is a triangle whose base is always broad, whose chief points are streamlined by agelessness...
Editor of Vogue itself is Edna Woolman Chase (mother of Actress-Author Ilka), an amber-eyed, blue-haired, 66-year-old. An able, experienced judge of style trends, Mrs. Chase started in the circulation department 38 years ago, in no time was writing picture captions. Sample: "Mauve is the prevailing nuance of the hour . . . even to the ear posies of one's carriage horses." In 1914 she became Vogue's editor. She gets to work around 10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, leaves about 6. An admirer of things transatlantic, she is largely responsible for Vogue's British...
...Ilka Chase, an actor on the stage screen and radio, as well as author of a dubious funny book, "Past Imperfect," opened last night at Brattle Hall in a revival of S. N. Behrman's comedy "Biography." Not as good as his other comedies, which include "No Time for Comedy," the play is the story of a successful career woman, a painter, and her decision to write her life story for a national magazine...
...birthday Manhattan's famous Players Club took over the house. After the performance of Life With Father the audience stayed for an even more nostalgic show. Still dressed as Father, Howard Lindsay brought on the stage such Empire-builders as Billie Burke, Lady Mendl, Ruth Gordon, Ilka Chase, Gilbert Miller; and from among the playgoers, the Wendell Willkies...