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May 23, 1941
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By BESSIE HACKETT
The idea for that smash- hit play, "The Women," really came from a man- for it was through her husband's curiosity about what women talk about when they get together, relates Clare Boothe, that she wrote the play in which not a single man appears and which paints a satirical picture of
Women.
Pressed for the story behind the play, Miss Boothe, who is touring. China with her publisher- husband, Henry Luce, said the play was really born at a dinner party she and her husband
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A man gave Claire Boothe the idea for
attended. As women are wont to do. Mrs Luce drifted off to powder her nose and met several friends doing the same thing. They started talk- ing about this and that- while Mr Luce paced impatiently outside.
When his wife finally emerged he demanded, as husbands are wont to do, what kept her in the powder room so long, and when she replied that she'd been talking to friends, he naked what on earth they found to talk about.
"Then I really started to think over what we'd talked about," Mrs Luce relates, “änd when I mentioned a few of the things to my husband, he said he couldn't believe that women could spend so much time on such discussions."
Luce was called away from home the week-end following the party and his wife set to work writing "The Women.” She started with the scene in the powder room, which be- came the last scene in the finished play.
"As each scene was com- pleted," she recalls, "I thought about working a man into it somewhere, but he didn't fit in and when the play was finished, no one as more surprised than I that it was entirely an all-woman play."
The whole play was written in three days and, with the exception of a few changes in the last scene, was produced exactly as it was written then.
Mrs Luce has just finished a new play which will be pro- duced in the autumn, probably with Raymond Massey in the leading role. It's called "The
Claire Boothe photographed out- side the Hongkong and Shanghai- Bank on her way to luncheon-at- the American Club here recently. Above is a scene from the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer film production of
"The Women."
Yohimbe Tree," the Yohimbe being a tree of love in Haiti.
Moving picture audiences soon will be able to see more of Miss Boothe's work on the screen, for she has just sold her
nowest Broadway hit, "Margin for Error," to Ernst Lubitsch. Sam Levine, who played the leading character on the stage, will interpret the same role on the screen. An- other Clare Boothe play just hought by Hollywood is "The Wedding Day," which has never been produced on the stage. It's a story about any- body's wedding day and all that goes on in connection with a wedding.
Dinner parties seem to be lucky occasions for Miss Boothe, for it was at one of them that she got her job on the staff of "Vogue" maga- zine. Scated next to Conde Nast, Miss Boothe chirped that she would like to work on his magazine, and the
"THE WOMEN'
publisher blithely said sure. -come. around the next morn-
ing.
When Miss Boothe showed up at the "Vogue" office, she learned that Nast was out of town, but she informed the editor that he had already given her a job. The editer assigned her to a desk and Miss Boothe feels sure that when Nast returned he was rather surprised to find she
· had taken him up on his offer.
Miss Boothe wrote fashion articles for "Vogue" - only _about_two months. Drifting into the adjoining | “Vanity Fair" office one day she dis- covered a vacancy in one of
editorships the
and was promptly hired when she said 'she'd like to switch over to "Vanity Fair." Miss Boothe remained with "Vanity Fair" for several years, resigning as managing editor to devote her time to writing plays.
From her years as a fashion editor und her instinctive Miss knowledge of style, Boothe has evolved two rules for well-dressed woman. First, never to be the most conspicuously dressed woman at a gathering (excepting professional people, such as actresses, elc.), and secondly, hever to look as though all one's clothes are completely
new.
Descriptions
Miss of Boothe's beauty and charm have not been exaggerated, She has a lovely pink and white complexion, large blue eyes, and soft, wavy, honey- coloured hair which fairly radiates sunlight. Her friend- ly smile puts strangers at their ense and she has
OPERA BEAUTY'S ROMANCE
HELLA TORROS, beautiful young opera star whose wed.
Met In Italy
frem
ding to an American millionaire was stopped on religious grounds, The war stopped Hello has found romance again with a Canadian major whom she met appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in a British garrison theatre.
"Can I help you?" the handsome officer asked her as stood in the stage wings waiting to entertain troops. thanks. There's nothing you can do," she replied, 'that's how it all began.
House, New York, where she was to meet Ellis Loeb, millionaire banker. she They wanted to marry, but her They frst met in a Milan hotel. "No, family objected as they, were of And different creeds,
"Then, on the eve of the war, I "He has done something for stockbroker. He returned with the was due to leave for America. When me, though he brought me Conndian Expeditionary Forca to war broke out I decided to stay happiness," she told reporters, fight for his country, and was hero," Miss Torres continued..
Dunkirk. He never talks about his 23-inch hips feat dive of loveliness Blue eyed, with brown hair, and "All through my performance experiences, though...... know he was standing at the side of the stage watching me. I kept hoping he wouldn't go away!
"Born in Britain, he went Canada as #lad, and became
at
--Helin is appearing in the new Lon-
"Now he makes me aing for him don Coliseum revue "Strike up the all the time. The other, evening, I Music.”
sat down at the piano and Bang 10. “Even opera `hingers,” --she do
to songs in a row just for him; and then clarez - "ban have good frures': If
a ho naked for an encurel"?
charming knack of including others in her conversation, generalising many of her answers with a flattering "we" instead of constantly using the pronoun "I."
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Miss Boothe disclaimed any plans for continuing her "poli- lical career following her campaigning for Willie last year. "I have no such plans at all, if you mean becoming a political commentator," she explained. "For one thing, 1 think it's humanly impossible for one person to say three really smart things in one week,"
Questioned regarding the tulk some months ago about her proposed reply to Anne Lindbergh's "The Wave of the Future," Miss Boothe replied, "There's no answer to Anne Lindbergh. The only answer .to her must be made in action, not writing." Miss Boothe does plan, however, to write a book following this trip to the Far East-probably some- thing on the order of her "European Spring."
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SOLLUM'S
Part in War MYSTERY
COLLUM, which has played
an important part in the Middle East campaign, was little known to many people until recently. Yet it was this outpost which was the' cause of a famous shipping mystery in the last war.
English shipping circles are recalling that marine'under- writers in 1915 paid a loss on a little steamer, the Niggem, which was bound from Alex- andria for Barcelona.
The vessel was posted as missing because nothing was heard of her for severnl months.
While the ship was lost the fate of her crew was a my stery. Eventually, with the captain, they arrived at Alex, andria and reported that the vessel had foundered six days after leaving port:
They took to the ship's boats and landed at Sollum. which was then a mere pin- point on the map, consisting of a few huts.
Missing Mariners Were
With Senussi.
There they fell in with n band of Senussi, the nomad tribe against which the Duke of Westminster led an expedi- tion Inter in the war.
At the time of the ship- wreck, however,these. Arabs were comparatively friendly, and while the British seamen were kept prisoners they were treated kindly.
Eventually the Arabs 'made contact with another chief, who had the crew sent to Alexandria under escort.
The case, according to a shipping expert, had two points of interest.
It was one of the few known instances in which the loss of a vessel "posted 'as missing,” has been estábilshed later as due to a specific casualty; and the life in- surance company with which the captain was insured had paid the amount due on his policy.
It is understood that the insur- ance company agreed to let mat- ters stand as they were, so that the captain was one of the few people who lived to spend the money due ut his death,
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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR
$32,000
In 1941 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hongkong, against which the Income to date is $14,000 only.
In order to continue its work, The Society ap- peals for the balance of
$18,000 before the close of the financial year on 31st October..
The number of children assisted last year was 5.100.
Hon. Treasurers (from whom a copy of the annual Report for 1940 may be obtained):
Mr. A. MCKELLAR, CA,
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,
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