Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...
Marc Beebe, first string center, was troubled by an ankle ailment, so Chase juggled his lines a little. He started Freshman Billy Harding, of his regular first trio, with second-liners Al Everts and Johnny Burton, and kept rotating the boys a little the rest...
Recently, to ease a lung ailment, 30-year-old John had been living in the south of France. His father conceded that John might have gone to Berlin for lung treatment...
Died. Laura Hope Crews, 62, veteran character actress; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame...
Hitting the College in July, the disease has been the biggest headache of the University Health officials for several months. It attacked with the same severity in the winter of 1938-1939, when about 83 students contracted the ailment...