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...When Floral Park's handsome society physician, Dr. Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...
...preserved. The voices of all U.S. Presidents since McKinley have been impressed in wax, as was William Jennings Bryan's famed "Cross of Gold" speech delivered at the 1896 Democratic convention. Other voices recorded for posterity: Tolstoy, Lloyd George, Florence Nightingale, Ellen Terry, Gladstone, Edwin Booth, Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt...
...Curtis Bernhardt...
...three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
This week's show, under the heading of "Development of the Narrative," features an old-time documentary, "Possibilities of War in the Air," along with Sarah Bernhardt in "Queen Elizabeth" and a German film, "M", starring Peter Lorre...