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...often stiff and opaque--that Archibald has fashioned his play. He might better have interpolated passages in which James lights his characters as he seldom does through their words. On such passages the reader relies above all in regard to the "frail vessel" of James' heroine. Without assurances of Isabel's wit and sensitivity, he could find no tragedy in the end of her independence--her longing to embrace life and soar on her imagination--in the prison of a marriage based on hatred and convention. The Isabel of her words alone seems only the Isabel with whom James began...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Portrait of a Lady | 11/16/1954 | See Source »

...whose runaway marriage in Scotland to British Hotel Heir James Goldsmith, 21, was a front-page tabloid sensation last winter (TIME, Jan. 18); after she collapsed in a Paris hotel with a cerebral hemorrhage, 24 hours later (prematurely) gave birth to a 4-lb.-9-oz. daughter, Isabel Marcelle Christine; in a hospital in suburban Neuilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Based on Isabel Rorick's 1940 book, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, Husband had a two-year run as a radio show starring Lucille Ball. In moving the show to television, CBS's West Coast vice president in charge of network programs, Harry Ackerman, searched hard and long for a properly glamorous pair of young marrieds. He finally decided on Hollywood's Joan Caulfield ("She has some kind of half-woman, half-gamin, half-childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perpetual Honeymoon | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Married. Isabel Bigley, 25, Broadway musicomedy star (Me and Juliet, Guys and Dolls); and Lawrence Barnett, 39, a vice president of Music Corp. of America, top U.S. musical talent agency; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norwalk, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...Portuguese royal family, fleeing Napoleon's army, moved to Brazil, their biggest and richest colony. After the French had been driven out, King Joāo returned to Portugal, leaving Crown Prince Pedro (Isabel's grandfather), as regent. Rising nationalism persuaded the prince to declare Brazil independent and himself its Emperor Dom Pedro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Redemptress Returns | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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