Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced movie titled The Missouri Traveler. Sonny Whitney wept at the wedding. Earlier he had celebrated his divorce decree by pounding his chest and exulting: "I'm a free man." But as far as the State of New York and wife No. 3, onetime singer and airline receptionist Eleanor Searle Whitney, were concerned, Multimillionaire Whitney was mixed up: two months ago a New York court banned his Nevada action on the ground that Whitney is a New Yorker and not a legitimate Nevada resident. Cried Eleanor, when told of Sonny's decree: "He is still my husband...
...born dramatic soprano, has become the Metropolitan's most highly publicized relief aria-pitcher in the year since she joined the company. Three times this season she substituted for ailing divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only polite applause. But she has unshatterable poise, knows...
Vincent J. Donehue's direction also falters in the first act when the performance leaves it uncertain who is the central character. Bellamy is offstage for most of the last two scenes, and the play may seem to be about Louis Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sara Delano Roosevelt...
...actors contribute to this effect through very strong performances, as Mary Fickett as Eleanor, Henry Jones as Howe, and Ann Seymour as the stricken man's mother contend among themselves and for their own conceptions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What they need is more organization, and perhaps the act simply requires cutting...
This fault disappears in the second act, and there is a great moment in Roosevelt's library where everything seems to catch hold at once. The catalyst is his awkward and lonely daughter, Anna, whom he crossly reprimands for a minor fault. But then he and Eleanor begin to communicate, and Anna, affectingly played by Roni Dengel, comprehends her parents maturely for the first time...