Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State funds offered actors great prestige, security and high incomes, and through the centuries Le Françiase has presented such alltime greats as Talma, Rachel, Mounet-Sully and Bernhardt. But where state funds are involved, so are political favors. In the early part of the 20th century, the mistress of an influential politician had a better chance to get into the Comédie Française than a talented actress. In unimaginative hands, the great French theatrical tradition of the Comédie became musty and dull...
...Peron, Argentina's ex-dictator, has a 16 year old mistress who is very fond...
Other lands, other customs. An American President could not have a mistress at all and stay in office. And any man who has a mistress so young is likely to be imprisoned for a statutory infraction...
...where a mad genius cringed in the rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together, and the final dispatch of their bodies to Valhalla in the flames of a funeral pyre wrote a tawdry Wagnerian finish to the evil story...
Much of the credit for the triumph must be given to actor Alastair Sim, who plays the double role of the Head-mistress and her gambler brother. Sim is better in the feminine half of his part, for which he assumes a towering wig, a hoarse whisper, and just the right mixture of cowardice and heroism. Joyce Grenfell is almost as funny in her role of a policewoman who looks very much like a horse but walks like an ape. As for the dozen or so of the Bells themselves, they are less expert, but on the whole quite monstrous...