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...principal reason for the fame of all three is Rudolf Besier's play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Liberally sprinkling the dialogue with quotations from the lovers'letters and poems, Playwright Besier applied the golden formula, love triumphs over tyranny, and for a climax had his bedridden heroine rescued from the sick room by her lover...
Died. Elsie Robinson, 73, gushy, widely read Hearstling whose syndicated column "Listen, World!" began twanging heartstrings in 1924, continued to resound after she was permanently bedridden following a 1940 accident; in San Francisco...
Religious evangelists pose a peculiar problem for radio and television stations. Many are enormously popular, and some bring religion to the bedridden, the busy, or the lazy. The problem arises because of a built-in difficulty: the TV evangelist cannot pass the plate. If he needs money, he must ask for it. But solicitation over the air is a privilege which can easily be abused. Most stations disapprove of it and some...
...outlook for aged victims of disease and accident in recent years. They used to be dismissed as "poor surgical risks." But no more. The death rate from broken hips, one of their commonest accidental injuries, was appallingly high because of surgical shock, or infection, or other complications during long, bedridden convalescence. Now surgeons can safely undertake the operation to reduce the fracture in victims as old as 90. The surgeons use a metal nail to fix the bones in place; the use of antibiotics prevents infections; and patients are up and about before complications have a chance to develop...
...ingenuity nor wit for the rest of its schedule. NBC's Producers' Showcase brought Broadway's Katharine Cornell to TV for her dramatic debut with her best-known vehicle, Rudolf Besier's 1931 hit, The Barretts of Wimpole Street. In telling the love story of bedridden Elizabeth Barrett and Poet Robert Browning, the play seemed to have a full set of strikes against it for a mass audience, since 1) it was about poets and poetry, 2) its problem could have been solved at any time merely by the heroine's walking...