MARIE TEMPEST FIVE MINUTES DEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 29

MARIE TEMPEST

FIVE MINUTES DEAD

GIRL'S LIFE SAVED

Supposedly dead for five minutes, five-year-old girl has been brough back to life again at Owen Sound, Or tario, Canada, by the skill of a spc cialist. Dr. A. F. Laird, who injecte* nine .drops of adrenalin into her head says an English paper. Although similar operations are nov fairly common, it is believed in Canad that this is the first case in which ; person has been revived- after bein. apparently dead for as long as fiv minutes. It is certainly withou parallel in Canadian medical histor; and it is expected that Dr. Laird wil contribute a paper on the case to th Canadian Medical Association; The little' girl's name was Audre; Brown and she was operated on fo double mastoid. After the operatioi her heart failed, this being attribute to a recent attack of scarlet fevei "There is not the slightest, doubt tha the child was dead and that the adr« nalin injection brought her' back t life," said Dr. Laird. Other notable .adrenalin triumphs ii recent years are! In 1921 Dr. Cranstoi Walker, of Birmingham, Englanc brought back to life an eleven-months old child whose heart stopped beatin, for four minutes. Last year a 58-yeai old English gardener named .Tohi Puckering was "dead" for four and half minutes,- but returned to lift E.arly this year an undertaker wa called to bury a 71^year-old man of Ty ler, Texas. Doctors injected adrenalii and the undertaker lost a customer.

HER "MIRACLE MATINEE"

The i'ollovviiig letter expressing her appreciation of the Jubilee matinee at Drury Lane Theatre was received by the editor of the "Daily Telegraph" from Miss Marie Tempest:— , Sir,—l tried yesterday in a few 'words lo thank Lord Camrose and his superb lieutenants, Mr. Geo. W. Bishop and Mr. W. A. Darlington, for their share in the triumphant success of the matinee inaugurated in my honour by the "Daily Telegraph." I am going to ask you to add to your kindness by allowing me to thank through your columns the countless friends in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Calcutta, Madras, and every corner of the earth I have visited in my, wanderings for their kind letters and telegrams. When I come to ray comrades of the theatre, I feel that my debt of thanks can find no adequate expression. From 1 o'clock last Sunday they were in the theatre till 10 o'clock at night, rehearsing the plays and the Players' Masque, hanging about for tedious hours' waiting to be called. But for this loyalty and devotion the brilliancy of Mr. John Drinkwater's masque produced in one day by the amazing Mr. Tyrone Guthrie could never have been achieved. It was a mirdcle that can never be eclipsed. Only highly-skilled artists could have arrived at such perfection under the , circumstances. "THESE DEAR FRIENDS." I am also deeply grateful to the great artists, who contributed to the brilliance of the afternoon, Mr. John McCormack, Miss Evelyn Laye, Mr. Gfeorge Eobey, Miss Mary Ellis, and Mr. Ivor Novello, and to those who contributed to the beautiful , programme, my old friend Mi;. Wm. Nicholson, Mr. George Shermgham, Miss Doris Zinkeisen, and the writers of the tributes; the musicians, Sir Landon Ronald, Mr. Herman Finck, Mr. Herbert Menges, Sir Edward German, and Mr. Charles W. Prentice, But I cannot really enumerate all those to whom I am indebted. There are Mr William Abingdon and his skilled assistants on the stage, Mr. Charles La Trobe, Mr. Frank Vernon. Mr. Townsend Whitling, Mr. L. de Renzi, and their helpers—the list is unending. To these dear kind friends I can only say I am so deeply indebted that I must remain their debtor all my life. Will everyone on the stage yesterday be generous enough to accept this as a personal letter of sincere and heartfelt thanks? To all, my grateful love. —Yours truly, i MARIE TEMPEST. May 29, 1935. So great was the demand for the special' souvenir programmes at the matinee that they were completely sold out; sales totalling. £35 10s 4d.