Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
...wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman, whose beautiful performance transfigures a vapid role). Once in Paris she thought she was a widow, and fell in love with Rick. But she left him as soon as she learned that Laszlo was alive. Rick is still trying to get over it. So is lisa...
Jason, the ivory tower aesthete, has married a girl named Lisa. Actually the daughter of a Southern mill-hand, she poses as an aristocrat from Virginia. Into their marriage comes Mike Ambler, a reasonably accurate facsimile of William Saroyan, whose new play is about to open on Broadway. Ambler takes a fancy to Pason, tears down his reserves, and just as the critic is becoming stale, brings out the human qualities in him. But Ambler also falls in love with Lisa. The night of the opening of Mike's play the crisis comes: Lisa prepares to run off with Mike...
...Ambler, carries the first two acts. His crisp and colorful performance of the half-genius, half-charlatan, stands fair to steal the show until Mr. Nagel gets his chance in the third act, where he manages the review-dictating scene with intelligence and fine technique. But Louise Kanasireff, as Lisa, fails to rise to the level of the men; the wife is a badly realibed character and Miss Kanasireff contributes little to it. Among the others, John Taylor, Dennis Gurney and Nancy Duncan stand out as representative people of Ambler's beautiful world...
During one of Sarah Bernhardt's many "farewell" tours he wrote: "To me in every role she is the Mona Lisa, disinterested, semi-smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound flippant to the stuffy, but to all others his fastidious values were plain enough. Many actors hated Percy Hammond, many others recognized his pith. When the Chicago Tribune announced that he was being sent abroad to cover World War I, a Chicago actor remarked: "Heavens! What if he doesn...