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...hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. Operations and injections were useless. Pavlova's heart was weak. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised for dancing. "Play that last measure softly," she said...
Jean-de-Dieu, waiting for the sad sentence that they knew was inevitable. They learned that he had received the last sacrament. Twice they heard that he was in a final coma...
...daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having Mr. Logan fall off a building and lapse into a coma. Best feature of the futuristic sequences is a ballet mecanique, led by blond and birdlike Mr. Dunham. Premiere of The Tiger Smiles was held in Princeton at the handsome new McCarter Theatre. Not since the old casino burned has Princeton had a Triangle first night. Cantankerous graduates may not think...
Propped up in bed a short while before his final, sudden relapse into coma, Lord Birkenhead scanned London papers, learned that he was "now almost recovered from his long illness." He died believing he would soon be well. His doctors, who had authorized the too optimistic early bulletin, issued a final one, brief, explicit...
Clerk Belt entered the room and bent over the vice president. "Who did the shooting?" he said. Vice President Gray stared at him with pale, fixed eyes. "That is obvious," he said before entering a coma from which he never emerged...