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...brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting room. When the doctor gets engaged to a poetess (Ina Claire) she leads him into abortive attempts to approach his children. But finally his inability to move out of his insensitivity so alarms her that she breaks the engagement, leaves him to his steely bewilderment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...main thing is that Philip Merivale, Ina Claire and Harry Sherman are in the rarest form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...

Author: By L. L., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

...spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...wise wife who knows her own husband, Katharine Cornell brings to her role force and personality, but never the glint of Gertrude Lawrence or the purr of Ina Claire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Married. Ina Fagan Whitaker Gilbert ("Ina Claire"), 46, stage & screen star, onetime wife of the late John ("Garbo") Gilbert; and William Ross Wallace Jr., 40, able San Francisco attorney; she for the third time; he for the first; in Salt Lake City, Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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