Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newark's "Dr." Harley was called both an osteopath and a chiropractor last week. According to an imposing certificate on his office wall, issued by a diploma mill called the "American Academy of Medicine & Surgery," he is a "Doctor of Medicine & Master Diagnostician." Subscribers to his anti-birth plan submitted photographs of themselves in street clothes and in the nude, and received numbered identification cards...
...Dionne. Emphasized were Papa Dionne's reactions to his children's guardians: Lawyer Kutner: What did anybody say if you didn't consent to the appointment? Papa Dionne: They were going to take the nurses away that night and stop the milk from Toronto and the doctor [Allan Roy Dafoe] would quit...
Same day Lawyer Kutner secured this deposition he went into Federal District Court, filed Promoter Spear's suit for $1,000,000 damages against Papa Dionne, Doctor Dafoe, the Quintuplets' guardians and others. Grounds: breaking a contract & conspiring to break it. Twice the suit was dismissed, but a third amended complaint stuck. Last week counsel for Doc tor Dafoe sought to finish the affair once...
...every detail of plot, staging and dialog the two pictures are almost identical. Artist Heideneck (Anton Walbrook), needing a subject for a magazine cover, picks up the wife of a Viennese doctor at a masquerade, paints her in nothing but mask and muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle...
With the script of Hard Pan in his pocket, Dress Manufacturer Polisuk next approached Producer Sam H. Harris who was persuaded to split production costs with him. Producer Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits...