HOLLYWOOD GESTURE
NEW ZEALAND HOSPITALS
BEDS FOR MIDDLE EAST
Twelve specially-constructed fracture beds given by Hollywood film stars are now being used at New Zealand base hospitals for the treatment of some of the more seriously wounded men from the Libyan battlefields. The beds arrived in the Middle East toward the end of last year, states the N.Z.'E.F. Times, and were used for the first time for casualties from the Cyrenaican campaign. They arc built of while enamelled metal and have brass plates at the heads, with the donor’s name inscribed on cadi.
Two of the beds were given by Claudette Colbert and two by Randolph Scott, while the following sent one each:—Anna Ncagle, Amos and Andy, Bette Davis, Deanna Durbin. Kay Francis. Edward G. Robinson, Gary Cooper, and Jeanette MacDonald.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24825, 27 January 1942, Page 6
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