Judy Garland Suffers Accidental Wrist Cuts

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 2

Judy Garland Suffers Accidental Wrist Cuts

CV Z. Pre* j Arte LONDON. July 21 Judy Garland was resting today at a psychiatric nursing nome after hospital treatment for wrist cuts described ias accidental. United Press International reported. The 41-year-old singer received treatment for “minor • injuries to her wrists” yesterday at St. Stephen's Hospital, and then entered the nursing home, her agent. Harold Davison. said. “It was an accident,” he said. “Miss Garland and Mark Herron moved into a rented house during the week-end. She was trying to open a metal-bound trunk and cut herself.” he said. A doctor at the nursing home said last night Miss Gar land was “quite comfortable.” Miss Garland slashed her neck with a broken glass in 1950 when her second marliage to the director, Vincente MineilL had fallen apart and her career vis declining. She made a come-back in

A folk-song party from East Germany had to withdraw from the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen because of difficulties in obtaining visas. The first prize in the folksong parties went to the Ukrainian male choir from Manchester: second were Branko Cvetkovic. of Belgrade. Jugoslavia: and third, the Linnets Girts Choir, from Dundee and Forfar, Scotland.

kciofux*-—Copyright 1960, but her career troubles and marital difficulties have resumed lately. She is separated from her third husband. Sid Luft, and has said she plans to marry Herron. She was booed off the stage in Melbourne and went to hospital after a nervous collapse in Hong Kong.