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Forty-seven-year-old Dr. Semmelweis, professor of obstetrics at the Pesth Lying-in Hospital, knew that he was going mad. He had broken down in tears at a medical meeting; he had begun talking to himself in public places; his wife had already made arrangements to send him to an asylum. His circulars were a pathetic attempt to make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him. When all of them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers...
Steaming Caldron. "Wash your hands!" became the cry of Semmelweis' life. The medical world replied by nicknaming him the Pesth Fool and easing him out of his assistantship. The remaining years of his life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed...
Firebird (by Lajos Zelahy; Gilbert Miller, producer). Zoltan Balkanyi (Ian Keith) was a matinee idol in Buda-Pesth. He also was a devil with the ladies, some of whom did not care for his lustful attentions. One of these was Karola Lovasdy (Judith Anderson), wife of a onetime diplomat (Henry Stephenson) who owned the apartment in which the unwholesome Balkanyi lived. When the actor is discovered dead there is evidence that dark-eyed Actress Anderson is the guilty party. Her apoplectic husband comes to think so, too. Finally he and the rest of the cast are sure of it when...
...expect to have a good rest very soon now. You see mother and I are leaving for Europe on the Paris tomorrow night, and I expect to have a real quiet vacation. I want to see all of the sights. Mother and I have heard that Buda-Pesth for instance is really quite a place if you know some one there...
...March from Aida Verlt Overture R Le' Rol 1 Ys Lalo Radeliffe Choral Society selections G. W. Woodworth '24 conducting. Marche Joyeuse Chabrier Danse Macabre Saintaacns Invocation cello solo Massenet Rumanian Rhapsody' Enesco Polonaise Ghopin Caprice Viennofs Kriesler The Carnival at Pesth Liszo...