Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voting booths that demonstrated the U.S. secret ballot to visitors at the Brussels World's Fair, some 200,000 popularity votes were cast by a poly-national assortment of voters who named their American favorites. Statesman: Abraham Lincoln. Actress: Kim Novak (who drew more than twice as many votes as second-running Marilyn Monroe). University: Harvard. Musician: Louis Armstrong. Most Important Immigrant to the U.S.: Albert Einstsin, distantly followed by Thomas Mann...
...Actress Myrna Loy, 53, once the Thin Man's perfect wife, announced a separation and the coming end of her fourth marriage. Since 1951, she has been the wife of Howland H. Sargeant, 47, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs when she married him, now heads the Manhattan-based, anti-Communist American Committee for Liberation...
...Pleasure of His Company (by Samuel Taylor, with Cornelia Otis Skinner) is the first suavely managed drawing-room comedy in several seasons. With Actress Skinner's help, Playwright Taylor-on whose shoulders, more than anyone else's, has fallen the opera cape of the late Philip Barry-has contrived a bright tale of the prodigal father who, turning up for his daughter's wedding, turns everything around him upside down. And Cyril Ritchard, on whose shoulders have fallen both acting the prodigal and directing the play, has added greatly to the gloss...
Ella Clark and Amanda Mackay-Smith rate notice for the size of their parts as the other two sisters, but not for their accomplishments. Miss Clark, particularly, shows nothing but the efforts of a young actress trying hard. Richard Smithies, in the part of a philosophic army officer, plays Richard Smithies. He does this very well by now, but the characterization is becoming tiresome. As for the other performers, except for Elizabeth Fox, who is just about nasty enough as a snobbish young wife, the kindest thing which can be said is that they would profit from further experience...
...things run counter to the rest: Jo Mielziner's ingenious, bright sets, and 19-year-old French-Chinese Actress Nuyen's fetching personality. A more slushy than sexy blend of sex and slush, Suzie Wong should linger long on Broadway, just the thing for matinee ladies munching tear-splashed caramels or for gentlemen with a slightly adolescent fondness for tarts...