Plot of Historic Film Comparable to Actress' Life
Republic drama based on Thomson Burtis’ story, “War of the Wildcats,” in which Marjorie Eambeau has a featured role, brings the veteran actress back vividly to her own real life experiences. Miss Eambeau can well remember her own true life experience when, as a child, she journeyed to Alaska with her doctor-mother, then an eager young woman-medico with lofty ambitions to set up a hospital and clinic for Eskimos and traders. Women doctors were very rare in those days, and the sourdoughs in Nome looked with distrust and open contempt on young Dr. Eambeau. Her vials of serum, clinical apparatus, test tubes, forceps and all other paraphernalia went to total waste —while hundreds of stubborn natives died by the droves of plagues, scurvy and dysentery.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 1, 29 May 1947, Page 6
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133Plot of Historic Film Comparable to Actress' Life Lake County Mail, Issue 1, 29 May 1947, Page 6
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