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Sweet Aloes (by Joyce Carey; Lee Ephraim, producer) is a good commercial mixture of pseudo-science and sob-stuff calculated to provide a lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...
...many a time I have heard him say: "There is one woman of the U. S. to whom a monument ought to be erected and I hope that it will be done some day." And then he would tell me the story of the first ovariotomy [performed by Dr. Ephraim McDowell on Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford in 1809 (TIME, June 10)]. If he knew the name of the patient I do not recall that he said it, but I remember well his admiration of Dr. McDowell...
Late in 1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell, 38, of Danville, best surgeon west of Philadelphia, received a call to Greentown, 60 miles across country, to deliver a Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford. Dr. McDowell, a big, vigorous man, rode over to Greentown. Two attending physicians assured him that Mrs. Crawford carried twins. He made an examination per vaginam, soon ascertained that she was not pregnant but had a large tumor in the abdomen which moved easily from side to side...
...eighty-four Professor Ephraim Emerton died. His connections with the University were supposedly severed in 1918 after thirty-six years of continual service, but those who have known History 1, know better. Until History becomes a forgotten art the connections of Professor Emerton will not be severed with any educational institution...
Services for Ephraim Emerton '71, whose books are known to all History 1 students and graduates, will be held in the Memorial Chapel at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. Henry W. Foote and burial will take place in Mount Auburn Cemetery...