BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief IN BED WE CRY, by Ilka Chase. (Doubleday, Dor-an. $2.50). Ilka Chase, the gay daughter of Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase and author of Past Imperfect, has turned out the most...
...It's a light, mildly malicious portrait of a career woman and life as it is not lived by 95 per cent...
...Clare Boothe fares well, as we read tid-bits about her youth, two marriages, magazine experience, plays, the feud with Dorothy Thompson, and politics...
...2.25...
...Why most reviewers take it so seriously is a mystery...
...Here is frothy, casual "portrait of a luminous lady" by a newspaperwoman who has largely collected her data from previously published material...
...Ignore Miss Chase's balmy reflections on the war, but don't ig-nor her sharp comments on wartime Manhattan's carriage trade, refugees, relief committees, and decadent atmosphere...
...Ilka Chase, the gay daughter of Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase and author of Past Imperfect, has turned out the most titillating novel of the year...
...It's a woman's book, a readable, tartly witty story of the love life of one Devon Elliott, beautiful and rich cosmetic businesswoman...
...Stephen Daye...
...AU CLARE DE LUCE, by Fay Henle...
...And since its contents fully live up, to the suggestive title, it will be avidly read...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 48
