Word: theresa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Chicago judge reluctantly used the old Holmes decision, only precedent in U. S. jurisprudence on this phase of the legal status of fetuses, to deny $100,000 damages to a Mrs. Theresa Joller Smith, who had sued Dr. Albert E. Luckhardt and Radiologist Isador Simon Trostler. Thirteen years ago, she claimed, Dr. Luckhardt diagnosed a lump in her abdomen as a tumor and the radiologist treated her with X-rays. The "tumor" turned out to be a baby whose head the X-rays had caused to harden unduly soon. Result was an imbecile who lived until last...
...Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused to be examined. Last February. Mr. Sears rented a room for his servant in a boarding house nearby sent Grouard there for "a good rest " Grouard never left the room. Last week when Landlady Theresa Harr found her boarder unconscious, she called two doctors: they told her that Alfred Grouard was: 1) dying. 2) a woman. Police identified her as one Lucy Hall, but no one knew what had become of the $16,000 Sears had paid her in 14 years...
...Theatre Guild decided to produce Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman. Its chief characters were a married actor and actress, its theme a test of fidelity. The Guild's canny Theresa Helburn saw the piquant possibilities of casting a happily-married stage couple in the parts. The tremendous success of The Guardsman led to 14 more such pairings. The Lunts are now known throughout the U. S. as the leading Mr. and Mrs. of the theatre...
...manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards, but has so far found no play worth producing, so the film companies are once more ready to do business with Broadway...
...Hero is Born (by Theresa Helburn; produced by the Federal Theatre...