Word: mackellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Success in the pelvis led to Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others...
Using the stage as a soap box, Playwright Toller now harangues through the character of Egon Hinkemann (Maurice Schwartz). Before he marched off to fight for the Fatherland, Egon was a strapping fellow with a beautiful wife (Helen MacKellar). He returns from the fray an emasculated wreck, "no man at all." To make a living he astonishes side show crowds by biting the heads off guinea pigs. "They want blood!" says his manager. They...
Although called a comedy, Through The Night is really a variety of mystery play. Actress Helen MacKellar is wedded to a righteous hypocrite who has been appointed Crime Commissioner of a metropolitan suburb. Having pitched their drama in an urbane setting, Playwrights Golding & Dickey feel free to introduce all the standard elements of bogus stage high life-a crafty butler, a drunken polo player, an. unscrupulous Spanish noblewoman, a millionaire and his wife, a smart lawyer who sympathizes with Actress MacKellar. The story gets under way when the rich neighbors are robbed of their jewelry. Miss MacKellar catches a smooth...