Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia ground simultaneously. Attacks of indigestion sometimes cause him to faint. His secretary tries to suppress publication of such incidents. A Swanson fainting spell that got into print once cost the Senator some $25,000 in additional campaign expenses to convince his constituents he was not an invalid. Admirals expect him to give them a free hand running the Navy...
Before Morning (by Edna & Edward P. Riley; Albert Bannister & John G. Norman, producers) is a mystery play which, although it refrains from bringing the murderer on the stage until Act III, does mystify. It has to do with an unemployed but practical actress who, to support herself and invalid child, is about to marry a rich gentleman from Detroit. At the news of this betrothal, an elderly banker, one of the actress's sweethearts, faints dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady...
...house. Yes, drains! First to notice it is not any inhabitant of the house but the Dean's nephew, young Christopher, who as an architect takes an interest in such things. He also takes an interest in naïve young Emily Chilvester, a more academic interest in Invalid Sister Lilian's mystical drawings...
When Christopher kisses Emily she falls in love with him and is promptly expelled from the house by her father. When she learns that men betray she rushes off to drown herself, but Invalid Lilian makes a huge last effort and saves her, at the cost of her own life. Old Mr. Chilvester takes Emily back again. Her true Chilvester blood coming out at last, Emily stands shoulder to shoulder with her parent while he fights a hopelessly losing struggle against the combined forces of society. His efforts sap the old man; merciful death comes for him before he realizes...
Phase 3 of Katharine Cornell's theatrical life began last year when she produced with her husband The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Her portrayal of the invalid poetess was the season's sensation. There are figures to prove it. When she withdrew the Manhattan production to take it on the road it was still doing $20,000 worth of business a week. She grossed $33,000 in Philadelphia during Holy Week. Ten thousand folk were turned away from a benefit performance in Chicago. When the tour ended in San Francisco, The Barretts had taken...