Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso nosed past Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...cast itself has no flaws. Isabel Bigley is big and attractive in voice and frame as a chorus girl who renounces a brutish electrician for the assistant stage manager. As her suitors, Mark Dawson and Bill Hayes each have powerful stage voices but too little to do with them; the shifts between the backstage plot and the on stage musical are so frequent that none of the principals is seen often enough. This is especially true of Joan McCracken, pixie-faced little dancer whose number, "It's Me," is the show's comic high point. Helena Scott, Juliet...
...wasn't enough to produce the rounded picture of Wilder that Barton needed to write his cover story. In addition to interviews with a number of the writer's other friends and early associates, Barton and Researcher Marjorie Burns spent a day with Wilder's sister Isabel at her home in New Haven...
There, in an interview punctuated by frequent trips to supervise plumbers who were installing a new dishwasher, Miss Wilder was extremely helpful in providing incidents from her brother's early life. Barton noticed that, for a writer, there were few books around the house, wondered about it aloud. Isabel explained that Wilder gave books away all the time, and that she could "barely hang on to copies of books written by members of the family"-a small library in itself, including three novels by Isabel. Giving away books seemed to be a family weakness; Researcher Burns was given...
...Wilder seems determined to get acquainted with as much of that population as he can. Between restless peregrinations, he settles for brief periods in the "house the Bridge built" in New Haven. It is a simple, sunlit house, perched on top of a hill; Wilder's sister Isabel keeps house. When he is there, he usually gets up at 7 ("The bell of Lawrenceville still rings in my head") and goes out for breakfast - sometimes to the railroad station, a three-mile walk. He eats whatever he feels like eating. "What did you have for lunch?" Woollcott once asked...