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Picture of Clare Boothe Luce, author of the Broadway hit The Women; playwright and dramatist; twentieth century American Literature


 
December 26, 1936
William Shakespeare, Clare Boothe Luce
 
Luce's Women
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1936, Clare Boothe Luce's The Women opened on Broadway, the first of its record-breaking 657 performances. Some reviewers (usually male) were more appalled than enthralled with the eye-scratching gossip of "best-bred hellcats and social filth mongers" all dressed up in "ermined smut," but the play brought first-fame to Luce, and opportunities which her beauty, considerable ambition and adequate talent would not waste. ...   FULL STORY »Luminary Graphics, Inc.
 
 
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