【美国人物志】克莱尔·布思卢斯 (3/9)
卢斯夫人（Clare Boothe Luce，1903—1987）：美国女文学家、剧作家、新闻世业家、外交家，生于纽约，为美国报业巨星亨利·卢斯之夫人，1946年改入天主教。1953—1957年任美国驻意大利大使，为美第一位女大使，1957年获Laetare奖，又获西·塞耶奖。Hints:
Clare Boothe
Vanity Fair
"Abide With Me."
Broadway
New York City
Henry Robinson Luce
Time and Fortune magazines
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201208/201208290931032694938.mp3Clare Boothe became a top editor at Vanity Fair. She worked there until 1934. By then, she was also writing plays. One play was called "Abide With Me." It was about a man who mistreats his wife. "Abide With Me" opened in a theater on Broadway in New York City in 1935. Critics hated it. Two days after the show opened, Clare Boothe married Henry Robinson Luce. He was a famous and important magazine publisher. He published Time and Fortune magazines. She had first met Henry Luce at a party in New York. At the time, he was married and had two children. He and Clare were married a short time after a court order canceled his first marriage. They would stay together for more than 30 years.
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