Show Blondell Illness Halts Stage Play Opening SAN FRANCISCO OR Joan Wi-Joan Joan Blondell the motion picture actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress rested In a hospital Monday from nervous and physical exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion ex ex- which forced postponement postponement postponement postpone postpone- ment of her scheduled opening here Sunday night in a stage play her first in 10 years An ambulance met the train on which the actress and her s supporting sup supporting sup sup- p- p porting cast arrived Sunday from southern California Producer Al H. H Woods said Miss Blondell was under strain during during during dur dur- ing a trial performance Saturday in Santa Barbara and that she almost had a nervous breakdown during rehearsals in Los Angeles A plain case of overwork was the way doctors here described the actress' actress illness Opening O of the play Good bye to Love was postponed to June 17 |