THRILL FOR ACTRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 135, 4 December 1935, Page 9

THRILL FOR ACTRESS

RESCUED BY DOCTOR

Miss Laura La Plante, the American film actress, had a film thrill in real I * re"ntly' when, as she lay ill j n bed, she was rescued by the. doctor who was attending her after her nouse S.^Wai^^ tat° fl™- «*"

ih?t fu r noon> the Thatch, a thatched bungalow on the Fredland Estate, caught fire'over the porch a few yards from the garden bedroom where Miss La Plante lay. i n a few minutes the whole roof was in flame<= and the beams cracked ominously Dr. C. E. Beare, of Dorking, perceiving her danger as smoke and flame filled the room, lifted her from the bed and helped her through a french window into the safety of the garden Wrapped in blankets, she was carried to a neighbour's house and the doctor then telephoned for the re brigade. Quantities of furniture were saved but despite the efforts of the fire fighters the roof soon collapsed and the building was extensively damaged. The house was one of the most charming in these parts, and belongs to Mr. "Jimmy" Walker, former Mayor of New York, and his wife Miss Betty Compton, the film actress, who had Jet it to Miss La Plante and her American husband, Mr. Irving Asher.

Mr. Asher, summoned by telephone calls from his company's film studios, later drove away his wife, who, warmly wrapped up in his motor-car, looked pale and exhausted.