FILM STARS' DOCTOR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 14

FILM STARS' DOCTOR

Miss July Kelly, the young Australian stage and film star, is one of many actresses whp have benefited by treat- , ment at the hands ef Dr. John Carpenter, of New York, now in London. It is by means of his small but powerful hands, aided by a thorough knowledge of psychology and a black mask, that this American doctor is able to transform a raging, temperamental stage or screen star into a pleasant, affable but competent performer. Stage fright, scr.een shyness or the "mike" jitters all disappear under his ministrations. He perfected his treatment after years of experimenting in Broadway. His patients inelude stars like Edith Pay, Joan Orawford, William Powell, June Knight, as well as Judy Kelly. "My system eonsists of manlpulative work affecting all the nerve eentres,' ' 1 he said. "I sef; about devising a cure for stage 'jitters,' and the result? have justifced my efforts. A black mask i« pufc over tho eyes of the patieat to create f state of mental oblivion. Then I massage the area from the first eervical to the mid-dorsal of the spine, and this brings about eomplete tranqniL liiy." Miss Judy Kelly said: "This treatment made a new woman of fihe poor old wreck that was me." Ginger Rogers is reading a script from Louis Bromfleldfs story "And It All Came True." If she likes it she will make it for Warners. It is a cpmedy-drama' of New Yorkj Wallace Beery injected a psififul nbte of realism into the script of "Bad Man of Briaistone" when he stnmbled and shofc himself just above the kneecap with a blank cartridge. It happened when Beery portraying a bad hombre of the early West rushed into a room with two six-shooters blazing tripped and deflected the gun. He dropped to the flooT with blood streaaiing and was hurried off to the CedaTs of Lebanon Hospital. On the way he characteristically expressed himself as being "more afraid to ride in the ambulance" than of being shot.