[1] An article in Life magazine's March 31, 1941, issue said, "One of the oddest phenomena in the entertainment world is how a little idea like Claudia can grow into big business.
"[2] The Claudia stories originated as serialized narratives in Redbook and Good Housekeeping magazines.
[3] A 1949 article in Radio Album magazine pointed out the similarity between author and character: "Knowing Rose Franken is having special insight into how Claudia got the way she is.
Franken's obituary in The New York Times described the Claudia works as follows:Miss Franken's works displayed a steadfast conviction that marriage was a compound of gaiety and disaster, in which the partners matured as the result of shared experience.
[2] Franken wrote and directed the play, which producer John Golden said was his favorite of his more than 100 Broadway productions.