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Veteran Broadway Actress Dies
In Midst of Scene on LA. Stage
LOS ANGELES, UPi—Veteran<
Broadway actress Isabel Bonner
died Friday night in the midst of
a scene on the stage t>f the Car
thay Circle Theater.
The curtain was rung down im
mediately. The audience at the
theater where she was playing the
female lead in “The Shrike” did
not know what had happened un
til stage manager Henry Staudigl
told them she was dead.
Miss Bonner was 47. Staudigl
said he believed a heart attack
caused her death.
She was playing a hospital
scene with male lead Dane Clark
in the first act when she suddenly
fell forward on the bed where
Clark was supposed to be a pa
tient.
Clark leaned forward and put
his arm around her. “Ann, speak
to me,” he interpolated into the
dialogue. “Is something the mat
ter? What’s wrong, darling? I love
you.”
Then he realized something was
wrong. He turned to the wings and
said: “Bring down the curtain.”
Many in the theater thought it
was part of the play. Then Stau
digl appeared and told the audi
ence its money would be refund- \
ed. “The Shrike” had only two
more performances to play in its
Los Angeles run. Miss Bonner’s
understudy, Edith Reis Merin,
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played the role in two shows Sat
urday.
The cast was deep# shocked.
Clark had tears in his eyes as he
left the stage. He told a reporter:
“I’m sick. She died in my arms.
She and her husband were my
best friends.”
A movie film editor, Harold
Cornsweet, who was in the audi
ence, said the spectators were un
aware of the tragedy at the mo
ment it happened. He said of the
scene and of Clark’s ad-libbing:
“It was so realistic that people
in the audience were crying.”
Miss Bonner played the part of
Ann Downs, an overly possessive
wife, in the Los Angeles produc
tion. On Broadway and in the
still-unreleased film version she
played the part of a woman psy
chiatrist.
Her husband, Joseph Kramm, is
the author of the play. He flew
here from New York after he was
told of Miss Bonner’s death by
telephone.
Fairbanks Offers Post To
Coronado City Manager
FAIRBANKS, tfV-T h e Fair
banks City Council Friday night
voted to ask M. W. Slankard, city
manager at Coronado, Calif., to
become city manager here.
Slankard would replace Donald:
MacDonald III, who has been act
ing city manager since the dismis
sal of Donald Eyinck last March.
The post here would pay $14,
000 annually to start, increasing
to $18,000 yearly after four years.
Slankard, previous to his ap
pointment at Coronado, was city
manager at San Bruno, Calif., and
Roseburg, Ore. He has held muni
cipal positions at San Leandro and
Turlock. Calif.
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Tacoma Logger
To Try To Swim
Juan de Fuca Strait
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.,
Bert Thomas, logger from Taco
ma, Wash., with four unsuccessful
tries to his credit, swam treacher
ous Discovery Passage Friday.
He swam the four miles through
swirling, tide-torn waters in 58
minutes, 50 seconds from Cape
Mudge on Quadra Island to Camp
bell River Post Office on Vancou
ver Island.
After the swim, he announced
plans for his fifth try at the Juan
de Fuca stretch this week, swim
ming north this time instead of
south as on his previous attempts.
Two persons who tried to get
into t^ie swim with Thomas were
arrested. A woman, whose name
was withheld by police, ran from
the crowd, shed her dress and
plunged in.
Earlier, Jack Quattell was
picked up by a police boat while
attempting to swim the dangerous
stretch.
180 U.S. Students Arrive
In Norway For Summer
Course at Oslo University
OSLO, Norway UP\—The Norwe
gian - American liner Stavanger
fjord arrived in Oslo Saturday
with 180 United States students.
They are attending a six-week
course at the University of Oslo’s
American Summer School.
The Americans and six Norwe
gians taking the course are stay
ing at the Blindern Student Home,
where a reception for them was
given Sunday.
They attended a Fourth of July
ceremony today at the Abraham
Lincoln statue in Oslo. Fourteen
of the Americans hold Fulbright
scholarships.
Twenty other American stu
dents reached Oslo earlier to at
tend the university.
Rosalee Ann Hansen, an attrac
tive coed from Seattle, said she
came here “to see the country of
my parents.” She said she has rel
atives in Bodoe, north of the Arc
tic Circle.
LESS HALIBUT
SEATTLE, U?>—Halibut catches
in Alaska waters between Cape
Spencer and the Shumagin Is
lands are running considerably
behind last year, the International
Pacific Halibut Commission re
ported Friday.
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