Word: campobello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the first lady of Democratic politics. Eleanor Roosevelt, happily got together with her four far-ranging sons-John, James, Elliott and Franklin D. Jr.-for a rare family portrait. Then the Roosevelt clan headed for Broadway to attend the opening of Sunrise at Campobello (see THEATER). At final curtain, first-nighters gave a standing ovation to Mrs. Roosevelt, who had seen the play from the next to the last row of the theater...
Sunrise at Campobello (by Dore Schary) extends from Aug. 10, 1921 to June 26, 1924-from the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio to the moment when he rose, at the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, to nominate Al Smith for President. The interval between represents a catastrophe in F.D.R.'s life out of which he forged a victory; it has thus all the contours of the classically beleaguered hero. In addition, Sunrise at Campobello offers the classic motif of external pressures, with F.D.R.'s imperious mother wanting her crippled son, by returning...
Dore Schary's new play succeeds both as drama and history. Dealing with Franklin Roosevelt's poliomyelitis attack, his recuperation, and his return to political prominence, Sunrise at Campobello not only relates the facts of this most striking of political careers, but also demonstrates real growth in several characters...
...acre estate with 23-room mansion on Campobello Island, off Canada's New Brunswick coast, long the summer home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was put up for sale in national magazine ads. Price: "$50,000 with original furnishings; $75,000 with Hyde Park items." Among the Rooseveltiana: "Museum-caliber collector's items [such as] F.D.R.'s Cabinet meeting chair, childhood drawings." Biggest inducement to a commercial-minded purchaser: "Unexcelled opportunity to create a self-supporting memorial museum...