Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cronin's protagonists are standard stock, the rest of his cast is even more so. Painfully familiar are the kindly old doctor who plays solitaire, the desiccated matron in black who hatches plots, the wife of the sanatorium's chief who likes to have her virtue sullied by the hero of the piece. Reasonably well acted, Jupiter Laughs could be diagnosed as a sad case of dramatic leukemia...
...country a jumble of big, rambling buildings sits on the crest of a rolling, wooded slope which rises from the shores of a blue lake. During World War I it was used as a recuperation camp for Canadian officers. After the war it was remodeled as a swank private sanatorium, which failed during the depression. Two months ago it underwent another metamorphosis. The Canadian Government surrounded it with barbed wire, set up sentry boxes, installed 300 Nazi prisoners...
...gave the Dr. Jekyll half to a pleasant, domestic-looking chorine who recited excerpts from Emily Dickinson's hard-bitten verse. The frustrated, poetic, aspiring, cockeyed half she reserved for herself, danced it with a bevy of bouncing males that would have driven prim Poetess Dickinson to a sanatorium. When she was through, her intellectual audience broke into sobs and cheers. Whether or not any dancer's exterior can plausibly represent a poet's interior, Martha Graham had put on a good show...
...more complicated situation will occur on WOR's Meet Miss Julia in September when Helene Freeman (who plays a young matron named Sandra Wilson) intends to take a vacation. At the present time the charming Sandra is married to a loony who is being treated in a private sanatorium. In order to get Sandra off the air, her unstable spouse will be permitted to escape from the asylum. Thereupon Sandra will have to go and look...
...chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even for making a definite pronouncement...