MIRACULOUS CURE.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 17 (Supplement)

MIRACULOUS CURE.

HEROINE OF “ TRADER HORN.” CARRIED IN, WALKS OUT. LONDON, June 15. v Miss Edwina Booth, the 24-years-old American film star of “ Trader Dorn” fame, who, on Friday last, walked out of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, St. Pancras, three weeks after she was carried in there on a stretcher, is now strong enough to go for daily walks. The change in her condition is considered to be almost miraculous.

Sinco she left the hospital, to which her father, Dr. James Lloyd Woodruff, brought her from Hollywood, in the hope that British doctors would cure her after specialists of many other countries had failed, MI3S Booth’s whereabouts have been kept a deep secret.

J 111 for Five Years. She had been 111 for about five years, for nearly two years she had been kept in a dark room, and when last November she filed a claim for £200,000 damages against the MetroGold wyn-Mayer film company it was alleged that she was suffering from ten different maladies contracted while making “ Trade}' Horn" in Africa in 1920.

When she arrived in Great Britain on May 12 her father said to a reporter': “ Even now Miss Booth has Hie symptoms of nearly every known nervous disease.”

Although Miss Booth is living in Hie heart of London it might be said that she is aliffost in a “secret retreat,” ami it is clearly I bought necessary that she should avoid Hie strain of seeing visitors.

Does Not Need Assistance. v ghc is slaying with her father in a modern luxury Hat in the Marylobonc district Every day she lakes a walk with him. and'allhough her slops .-dill betray weakness she docs not need assistance.