Word: wheelchairs
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...Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York Philharmonic rehearsal he became so elated that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he remarked, on recovering himself, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Like every other conductor worthy...
...first time since infantile paralysis struck her in June 1941, Operatic Soprano Marjorie Lawrence appeared before an audience: 600 guests at a Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon in Manhattan. She arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria's ballroom in a wheelchair, sang from a settee. Lily Pons fell victim to the singer's bogey, laryngitis, canceled a concert in Houston. Artemisa Elias Calles, black-eyed, 28-year-old daughter of Mexico's ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles, made her debut as a professional dancer in Manhattan, gave flamenco and Spanish dances in a floor show at the Hotel Pierre...
Monty Woolley-Alexander Woolcott with a beard-fits his part as perfectly as he does the wheelchair in which he spends most of the film. Better Davis, while she might seem somewhat wasted as the ingenue lead, is pert and smooth as his long-suffering secretary. Reginald Gardner plays Noel Coward better than Coward himself could...
...natural in the by-now-legendary role of Sheridan Whiteside, the literary celebrity who takes over his dinner hosts' home when compelled to remain by a fractured hip. The authors may or may not have written the role with Mr. Woollcott as a model, but in any case the wheelchair prop not only "fits his fanny" as he remarks, but is an admirable vehicle for Woollcott acting, which is strongest in its voice inflection and facial expression...
Dressed, he sits on a little wheelchair that looks like a typewriter table-no arms or back-and an attendant places his hand on the President's broad shoulders, pushes him to the elevator, down the pillared outside passage (if the day is fair) and into the Oval Room to his desk. Walking is still a difficult, lurching task to him, only possible with a cane and an aide...