MERLE OBERON
NARROW ESCAPE FROM INJURY. Merle Oberon, star of Samuel Goldwyn’s “Wuthering Heights,” came within an ace of being seriously injured by a phenomenon unheard of in Hollywood—an ice floe. While standing on the stage watching a scene by hei’ co-star in the picture, Laurence Olivier, Miss Oberon failed to notice a huge block of ice resting on a low parallel preparatory to being chopped up for the water coolers. Suddenly, without a sound to alarm the bystanders, the ’ block, which weighed well over a hundred pounds, slammed to the stage floor a mere matter of inches from Miss Oberon’s valuable feet. According to attaches on the stage, the ice had apparently been unevenly melted on the bottom by blasts from the stage's blower heaters and had subsequently toppled from its apparently secure perch. Thereafter, it was said, all ice would be kept on the floor to avoid further glacial avalanches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 4
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152MERLE OBERON Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 4
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