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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 13, 1951
Page 8
And You Think You've Got Troubles
New York—(U.R.)—First night mishaps are no novelty in the theater, But Robert Cummings claims some sort of record for the time he opened is co-star with Ann Sothern in "Faithfully Yours."
Even his three-week-old daughter got into the act.
"I scarcely know where to begin," Actor Cummings said as he marshalled his memories of disaster "But I might as well start by saying it was a warm muggy night, low barometric pressure and people respond badly when the barometer is falling.
"On top of that the engineer at the theater apparently failed to realize how warm it was and he started up the furnace late in the afternoon. He forgot to turn off the heat and someone discovered about an hour before curtain time that the theater was unbearable hot.
"They opened all the doors, and turned on the cooling system which
is distracting in the quiet of a theater during performance. We finally got it shut off after an act but by this time the audience was getting too cold.
"I should go back a day or so to say that the prop man, who knew all the ropes, quit suddenly before opening night.
Miss Sothern had received a new set of costumes just before the opening and she was not yet adet at getting into them in a hurry. As a result I had to cover up a couple of delayed entrances by some improvised business that made me look like a complete idiot.
"Then there was the baby. Mary, my wife, flew here with her in order to be at the opening.
"That evening we left the baby with a nurse in our suite when we went to the theater.
"About mid-way of the play, just as I was straining my ears for my
cue to enter, a theater attendant rushed up to me in the wings and whispered something like 'Your hotel—a fire—the baby.'
"Just then I heard my cue. I yelled some gibberish at the man about telling my wife and rushed onstage. Fortunately it was a scene in which I was supposed to go a bit haywire so I guess it didn't look too bed.
"Meanwhile my wife had rushed back to the hotel and found that the nurse had gotten the baby out of the suite safely. The fire, in a room immediately above the one the baby was in, killed two elderly persons.
"Outside of those things I believe everything else was normal. "Oh, yes, there was one other item. Philip Bourneuf, who has the third most important role, had been with us only a couple of days when we opened. Obviously he wasn't and couldn't have been at his best."
Santa Claus Visits Children Who May Not See Christmas
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Santa paid several pre-Christmas visits to youngsters throughout the land today because many of them will not live to see the old gentleman again.
He came bearing good luck, laughter, and good fortune to a few, but to many others, his trip was an emergency mission to crowd a few hours of joy into lives destined soon to be snuffed out.
Old St. Nick dropped in on 10-year-old Raymond Pike, Jr., at Kalamazoo, Mich. Raymond may die any day of cancer.
His last Christmas party was granged by the local AMVETS post which brought a circus to Raymond's bedside for a special performance.
Clowns, jugglers, and acrobats vent through their acts only a few feet from the wide-eyed youngster. The larger acts were performed outside as Raymond watched through a window.
Little 10-year-old Raphaela Frasano was granted the one wish of her life as Santa appeared to her in the form of singer Mario Lanza. The movie star was host for a pre-Christmas party given for the Newark, N.J., youngster. The child is dying of Hodgkin's disease, a rare type of anemia.
The President of the United States gave St. Nicholas a helping hand.
Mr. Truman gave orders to fly the two-month-old son of a sailor from Key West, Fla., to Bethesda Medical center in Maryland to see that could be done to save the life of David Minter.
But Navy doctors at the hospital said there appeared little hope to give the life of the boy. David is living of water on the brain, and an operation would provide only temporary help, the doctors said.
Across the nation at San Francisco, 14-year-old Ralph Ibarra, dying of cancer of the spine, stomach, and lungs, celebrated his last Christmas with the present he wanted most—
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He exists on soda pop because he can't eat solid food. Doctors said that the sugar in the four to six pints he drinks a day provide sufficient energy to sustain life.
Another cancer victim, William Vernie Smith, three years old, watched in spell-bound happiness as the lights on his Christmas tree were turned on in Woodward, Okla. He may never see another.
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High Speed Camera To Help Industry
Columbus, Ohio — (U.P.)-Battelle Memorial Institute has developed a camera here that can take 500 pictures in 1/200th of a second to help solve some of the complex problems of our high speed industrial life.
"What causes knocks in a piston engine is but one example of the type of problem we're prepared to tackle," said the designer, C. D. Miller.
The invention takes pictures about 10 times as fast as previously developed cameras and will help in analyzing various mechanical difficulties. It uses only one lens to avoid distortion of objects in making a series of photos or frames for a single movie series.
Miller said the developed film may be projected as a motion picture without reprinting.
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