page_title: Ilka Chase
section_title: Stage
hierarchical_section_title: Ilka Chase / Biography / Stage
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Ilka Chase, Myron McCormick and others in the 1934 stage production Small Miracle. Lead feature story is titled "A Playgoer's Discoveries" (no author credit). Caption reads as follows: One of the lesser threads in the plot: the hat check boy (Myron McCormick) seems to have stolen the diamond pin of Mrs. Temple (Ilka Chase). Marginal note written on face of original photograph used for magazine printing reads as follows: Small Miracle Act III Eddie is questioned by the police capt. regarding the missing jewelry. [The role of the police captain, Captain Seaver, was played by Robert Middlemass].
context_page_description: Ilka Chase was an American actress, radio host, and novelist.
context_section_description: Chase's Broadway debut occurred in 1924 in The Red Falcon. Her stage appearances included roles in Days Without End, Forsaking All Others, While Parents Sleep, Small Miracle, On to Fortune, Tampico, Co-Respondent Unknown, Keep Off the Grass, and In Bed We Cry, an adaptation of her novel of the same name. She was in the original Broadway cast of Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women (1938), and many years later appeared in Neil Simon's Broadway hit Barefoot in the Park.
caption: Chase (left) in the Broadway stage production Small Miracle (1934)
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