<P> A writer with considerable powers of invention and wit, Luce published Stuffed Shirts, a promising volume of short stories, in 1931 . Scribner's magazine compared the work to Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies for its bitter humor . The New York Times found it socially superficial, but praised its "lovely festoons of epigrams" and beguiling stylishness: "What malice there may be in these pages has a felinity that is the purest Angoran ." The book's device of characters interlinked from story to story was borrowed from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919), but it impressed Andre Maurois, who asked Luce's permission to imitate it . Luce also published many magazine articles . Her real talent, however, was as a playwright . </P> <P> After the failure of her initial stage effort, the marital melodrama Abide With Me (1935), she rapidly followed up with a satirical comedy, The Women . Deploying a cast of no fewer than 40 actresses who discussed men in often scorching language, it became a Broadway smash in 1936 and, three years later, a successful Hollywood movie . Toward the end of her life, Luce claimed that for half a century, she had steadily received royalties from productions of The Women all around the world . Later in the 1930s, she wrote two more successful, but less durable plays, also both made into movies: Kiss the Boys Goodbye and Margin for Error . The latter work "presented an all - out attack on the Nazi's racist philosophy" Its opening night in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 14, 1939, was attended by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann . Otto Preminger directed and starred in both the Broadway production and screen adaptation . </P> <P> Much of Luce's famously acid wit ("No good deed goes unpunished", "Widowhood is a fringe benefit of marriage", "A hospital is no place to be sick") can be traced back to the days when, as a wealthy young divorcee in the early 1930s, she became a caption writer at Vogue and then, associate editor and managing editor of Vanity Fair . She not only edited the works of such great humorists as P.G. Wodehouse and Corey Ford but contributed many comic pieces of her own, signed and unsigned . Her humor, which she retained into old age, was one of the pillars of Clare's character . </P> <P> Another branch of Luce's literary career was that of war journalism . Europe in the Spring was the result of a four - month tour of Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and France in 1939--1940 as a correspondent for Life magazine . She described the widening battleground of World War II as "a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together ." </P>

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