Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States State Department paid little attention to the case. Frederick Ayer, security officer of the U.S. Mission to Greece, was detailed to protect Polk's wife while she was being interrogated by the Greek police. He frequently was absent from the questioning sessions and made few other efforts to intervene in the case...
...Communist Party in an anonymous European country which M. Sartre does not call France. A young intellectual-idealist has been selected by Moscow to assassinate the national party leader (Boyer), who is believed to be preparing a compromise with the government. Before the agent can do this, his wife falls in love with the intended victim. He finally commits the murder just when he finds her in the arms of the leader...
...arguments represented by the assassin and the leader. It is not so tersely-written or compact a play as "No Exit", neither is it as outlandishly unrealistic and clumsy as "The Respectful Prostitute." Except for the sudden flaming-up of the love between the leader and the wife which seemed as if it had only just been scribbled on the margin of the script, M. Sartre has written a play that American playwrights could be well to study...
...that is evenly balanced by the whole personality of John Dall (the assassin), who is as Indiana as all get-out. Mr. Dall's acting style is not unlike James stewart's, and that of course is not bad at all. Joan Tetzel plays the confusing role of the wife with assurance. In the female division, however, she is topped by the performance of Anna Karen in the more clearly-defined role of a subordinate party official...
...tearjerker in "When My Baby Smiles At Me" centers around Dan Dailey. He is cast as an old-time burlesque comic and a man who knows the pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply can't do if. The result is embarrassing, both to Mr. Dailey and to the audience...