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...Huston) when elected President of the U. S. is a free & easy party politician, addicted to undignified jollities and speeding in his automobile. When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
...house secluded from the rest of Hollywood in Benedict Canyon. He was noted not for his affaires with film actresses but for platonic friendships, apparently based on hypersensitive sympathy for the misfortunes of unhappy celebrities. When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood." Platonic friendships are even more suspect in Hollywood than elsewhere. Nevertheless Paul Bern's reputation as a kindly, disinterested bachelor was such that even chit-chat writers, who had been attentive to Jean Harlow...
...doctor's plot to murder them. Implicated in the scheme is the household chauffeur (Clark Gable) who cuffs the nurse on the jaw when she disobeys his orders. When the hero of the picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely provoked in the cinema without the aid of cowboys, ropes, revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly and chuckle with relief. Well photographed, directed and acted, Night Nurse achieves...
...more commencement time came to the colleges and universities of the land last week, one of the grand old men of U. S. pedagogy lay dying of cerebral arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and heart disease, in a sickroom close by the campus of the university which he began building 40 years ago to be one of the country's greatest?Stanford of California...
...popular mind, Queen Helen has stood for years as one of the few untainted factors in Rumanian public life. Her sickroom vigil loomed momentarily bigger than the election. With profound disquiet the nation learned that she was running a slight temperature, due probably to the effects of inoculation and exhaustion. Crown Prince Mihai's temperature went down to 99.7 He was better. Her Majesty appeared to repose confidence in only one other human being, an elderly English nannie who shared her vigil...