WOMAN IN CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 November 1942, Page 5

WOMAN IN CONGRESS

Clare Booth, Playwright Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, who has been returned as a congresswoman for Connecticut in the new United States House of Representatives. is the Clare Booth who wrote that rather grossly revealing play, "The Women.” which was seen ‘ in the flesh” in Wellington during May, 1039. This play deglamourized women to such an extent that it was' thought at first that it would be barred by the sex. No such tiling occurred. Indeed, much to the amazement of most men. women flocked to "The 'Women in greater proportion than tv the generality of plays. They, by Home devious process of the. mind, seemed to like to see i ill their petty artifices exposed, and, the real cat in the sex playing in the open. , ; , But Clare Bootli evidently knew her sex Women made her play a success, not only in New York, but subsequently in Bondon, which <*;ty she. visited personally to supervise the production. there her new play, "Kiss the Boys Goodbye.” was also running iu New York to good business. , Clare Booth’s husband is Henry Robinson Luce, (lie founder, editor and publisher of ‘‘'.rime,” ami the of "Eortune” and “Bile,” both New York publications of world-wide fame, representing tlie new order in journalism. Air. Luce served as a second lieutenant in the last war in the United Slates. field artillery, and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1937, He was born in the Shangtung province, China,, in 1898, mid was educated at Yale (U.S.A.) and Oxford (England). Dance Profits for lied Cross. Decently the staff of Schiieideman and Sons held a successful dance, resulting in a cheque to the value of 1121/1/-, representing the net profits, being, handed over to the general purposes fund of the Bed Cross Society. This generous gilt was made possible by the excellent support received from the firm, stall and friends. World Citizenship. At. the recent meeting of the Womens Studv Circle in Wellington, the Rev. Moses Ayrton spoke on “Education for World Citizenship,” stating that common, sense, tolerance and sound knowledge, ol world affairs by the man in the street would help to rebuild a better world