Word: hochberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White: a hysterectomy following an infective abortion. Dr. Ferguson does the operating. Dr. Hochberg (Jean Her-sholt), the surgeon who runs St. George's hospital and considers Dr. Ferguson his most promising interne, persuades Laura Hudson to watch it. Going under ether, the nurse babbles enough to explain the cause of her predicament. Laura Hudson faints, has to be carried from the operating room...
...corridors and the house telephone service to get in the way of a simple, disagreeable story. More outspoken and more serious than the cinemas of the hospital saga of a year or two ago, the film is a harrowingly honest document. Good shot: Laura Hudson learning the lesson Dr. Hochberg wants to teach her, from Dr. Ferguson's impatient fury when she touches him, sterile after his scrub-up, with her bare hands in the operating room...
...Hochberg, played splendidly by Jean Hersholt, is the motive force behind the story. He has sacrificed everything honestly to make himself a great doctor. It is he who shows young Ferguson the relation between his duty to the medical profession and his personal happiness. Myrna Loy and Elizabeth Allan are capable, but since they are only foils in the story, have little chance to shine...
Engaged. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, youngest daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, onetime fiancée of Count Alexander von Hochberg und zu Fünstenstein (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930), and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, aviator, employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in Umkirch Castle, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. After the betrothal ceremonies the couple took off for a short Verlobungsfahrt (engagement trip) in an airplane...
Engagement Broken. Princess Ileana of Rumania to Count Alexander von Hochberg of Pless; by the Rumanian Government. Official reason: none given...