Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
Physician-Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Justice's father, was and still is popularly famed as a poet and essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into...
Milwaukee's long-lived scarlet fever epidemic attracted national attention last week when, with the peak total of 1,507 cases reported. Dr. John Peter Koehler, chief city health officer, ordered all Milwaukee children under seven to stay away from school for a month, banned them from churches, movies, libraries, other public places...
Dennis King's excellence as the swaggering handsome baritone here of musical romance a la Vagabond King is well accepted, and now in Mark Reed's "Petticoat Fever," he reveals an unsuspected talent for light comedy. The play itself is a hilariously funny romantic farce which should place a strong bid for the title of this season's comedy number...
...Washington, Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Herald, gleefully squealed: "I'll give $20 for a copy of the Post!" Like a flash a newshawk was out of the office while his boss waited in a fever of anticipation. The Post, published by Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, had been squabbling with "Cissy" Patterson's Herald for more than a year. Only three weeks ago the Post had jeered at the Herald for publishing a vivid "eyewitness" description of an execution two hours before the condemned men went...