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...shoe was on the other foot: the Jackson Park Hospital refused to admit a patient of an A.M.A. doctor who had been a member of the staff for 17 years. The patient, one Toyoko Murayama, though born in the U.S., was of Japanese blood. Explained Superintendent Lucius W. Hilton: "Some of our patients might object to such close bed contact to a Japanese. . . . This is a private hospital and we have absolute power over who we take...
...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...
When a movie is based on an unoriginal idea and an overabundance of emotion, it takes a truly professional touch to keep matters from getting trite. Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
Head of this Home is Mr. Hilton who is a captain away at war. Only his photograph ever appears in the film. Mrs. Hilton the U.S. dream housewife, is Claudette Colbert, acting her age. She is graciously patronizing to tradesmen, affectionate toward her servant (Hattie McDaniel) patient even with her bitchy cocktail-acquaintance (Agnes Moorehead) and a good mother to her two daughters...
When Mrs. Hilton, to make ends meet, takes in a roomer, he is Monty Woolley, a retired colonel almost as crustily beaverish as The Man Who Came to Dinner, but a lot nicer to have around. His G.I. grandson is Robert Walker, all feet, thumbs and fumbling charm. Miss Jones (in real life the former Mrs. Walker) falls in love with him and gives him self-confidence. Another visitor is the Hilton's dearest friend, Naval Lieutenant Joseph Gotten. Rejected by Miss Colbert, he has become a perennial bachelor...