Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mountain Music (Paramount). Hillbilly musical with Bob Burns and Martha Raye...
Also within smell of the sea are the Rice Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard, the South Shore Players at Cohasset. Inland Massachusetts offers the summer playgoer the famed Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge. The big show at Stockbridge this summer opened this week with experienced little Helen Ford (No Other Girl, Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann) in the title role of Director William Miles's new adaptation of Sacha Guitry's and Oscar Straus's musical, Mariette. Mr. Miles expected heavy attendance from Miss Ford's nearby hometown of Troy...
...table. The technician, a ruddy, healthy farm boy named Frank Brown, 28, who "was lucky to get a job at Bellevue right after coming out of high school," smiled reassuringly. He placed a metal cassette containing a photographing film under the girl, whose name was Martha Berger, adjusted the X-ray tube over her, turned on the current. There was a brief hum and the picture was made...
Young Patient Martha Berger sniffed, screamed, rolled off the table, scrambled from the room. Mrs. Grace Fusco, 48, X-ray assistant, whose back had been turned, noticed the commotion, grabbed Frank Brown's arm to pull him from the grip of the electricity. The 75,000 volts knocked her across the room. She staggered back for another tug. The man thought he shook his head to warn her away. But his muscles were too tense to do that. Mrs. Fusco saw only his popping eyes, grabbed again, was again knocked away...
...this time young Martha Berger, wondering if all this were part of the routine of taking X-ray pictures, put her head through the door. She was just in time to see Mrs. Fusco knocked down for a third time. The girl's screams summoned a man who turned off the current which then let Frank Brown fall unconscious to the floor...