Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Don Forte, removed from the Bruin contest in the third period last week because of the recurrence of an old leg ailment, was back in harness, and he is still first string right end, alive and healthy...
Died. Charactress Edna May Nutter ("Edna May Oliver"), 59, long-faced, purse-mouthed player of acid old maids; of an intestinal ailment; on her birthday; in Hollywood. Born into a well-to-do Boston family that went broke, she was originally a singer but ruined her voice giving outdoor concerts, turned to playing in theatrical stock companies. She made her first hits in Broadway's Icebound and The Cradle Snatchers, attracted greater attention in Show Boat. In Hollywood she was a deft scene-stealer, won a reputation as a character actress. She lived alone, rarely took part in Hollywood...
...rival NBC Orchestra. Massive Flutist John Amans, famed for his ability to make his tootling instrument boom like a church organ, was retired, replaced by the NBC Orchestra's Pennsylvania-born John Wummer. World's champion French Horn Player Bruno Jaenicke, suffering from a heart ailment, prepared to spend the rest of his career sitting on the sidelines while a younger man, Rudolph Puletz Jr., did most of his puffing...
...Hollywood jihad to save Fay Bainter's soul for the New Deal. Cinemactress Bainter impersonates the widow of an anti-New Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid. It proceeds by a series...
Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...