The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

All awards must be used exclusively in the United States (not applicable for travel or study abroad). Luce's play Child of the Morning about the murder of a saintly girl (1951) received mixed reviews in its Massachusetts tryouts and never made it to Broadway. She had served only four days from April 28 to May 1 1959 and never left American soil.

In her youth however Clare Boothe Luce flirted briefly with the Democratic liberalism of Franklin D. Politically Luce was a Republican who became steadily more conservative in later life.