Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cozy colony for retired dictators in Ciudad Trujillo is breaking up. Argentina's Juan Perón, who cannot get a U.S. visa, last week reserved space for himself and his young blonde secretary, Isabel Martinez, on a flight from Puerto Rico to Madrid. He canceled out when he could get no assurance of exemption from U.S. immigration and customs during the short stopover in San Juan, but presumably will try again by some other route...
Hero Owen Jedd Wiley is a Vermont-born Marine lieutenant stationed in Haiti during the early '30s. He smokes little and drinks less; the tropics wear but do not beat him. On Stateside leave, he meets a Smith girl named Isabel Bogardus, and highbred, high-strung Isabel shocks Owen by bedding down with him amidst the ancestral stones of an old cemetery. They return to Haiti man and wife...
...Miss Isabel (by Michael Plant and Denis Webb) is Shirley Booth, but even that does not help much. With scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe...
...theater, with its blunt visual effects, is less suited to so ticklish a story than fiction would be, and the authors of Miss Isabel are not suited to it at all. After eying a grim but at least genuine theme-that the mother's pathos may complete the daughter's tragedy-they back quickly away from it to trade in sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears...
Headquarters. In Mexico City, José Miguel Belio, arrested with wife Isabel for fishing pesos from a church alms box with a stick dipped in tar, told police: "I am innocent. Isn't money from the alms box given to the poor? Well, we are poor as hell...