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Smartly adapted by Wells Root from All Good Americans, Paris Interlude is a peewee inspection of French bars and barflies in the Lindbergh era. In it Otto Kruger, the most bedridden leading man in Hollywood, croaks through his pillowcase, Edward Brophy shuffles through the role of a disheveled newshawk and Madge Evans gives one more of the ingratiating performances which have lately made her the busiest ingenue in Hollywood. Good sequence: a fashion show, designed by MGM's famed Gilbert Adrian...
...ancient wine. Admiral Togo could not swallow, could scarcely speak, but he had not forgotten how to receive such honors. He had his ceremonial Japanese robes (the haori-hakama) spread over the end of his bed. For six years his wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles she rose painfully to take her place beside her husband's wooden bed in a little room bare of all decoration but a print of Mount Fuji...
Edwina Booth who thrilled cinemaddicts of 1931 as the blonde goddess of Trader Horn reemerged in last week's news in strange contrast to the vigorous, vibrant creature the public remembered on the screen. She has been bedridden and confined to a dark room for two years, the result, she claims, of some tropical disease which she contracted while producing the picture in Africa. Would the courts, she pleaded, compel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Trader Horn's producers, to give her $1,000,000 in a hurry so that she could get treatment in the School of Hygiene...
...Smack- the President brushed aside an elaborate public ceremony at which he was to have turned over his powers to the Vice President before leaving Argentina. Since Roca was sick, let him stay in bed. A brief decree, signed without ceremony by General Justo at the last moment, gave bedridden Roca proper power. With bands blaring, banners flying and two regiments escorting him as a guard of honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped out to the seaport of Mar del Plata (where coast guardsmen last January rescued the President from drowning). There...
...Perilous live electric wires fell from their poles into the confusion. Squads of firemen had first to clear the streets of scorched and unconscious victims. In one house they found the charred bodies of Mr. & Mrs. George Dale side by side in bed. Neighbors said afterwards that Dale was bedridden with cancer and that his wife, knowing he could not escape, must have stayed by him until both were burned...