Show DaIl ers er's S Career career A feared Near End I Vivian ivian Duncan May Suffer Suffer Suf Suf- fer Permanent Injury r to Knee OXNARD O ARD Cal Ca Aug 23 AP A At P- P Physicians were tr trying ln today oday to look Into the future far farenough enough to tell whether Vivian Duncan di dimInutive diminutive diminutive di- di stage star will ever again be able to go go through her dancing steps e s that h have v entranced d audiences s n co s1 l Vj v n rW p I. I a OI e eIn In Topsy and Eva was In ul ulIn In an automobile accident near here I last Thursday night She was wag In tn St St. Johns John's hospital here today with witha a seven-Inch seven laceration on th the thigh and a scalp wound five Inches long Her worst Injury however is a cut on her knee which caused the fluid to escape from the Kneecap This physicians fear may prevent her from dancing again None of ot the Injuries Is expected to result In disfigurement t. t Vernon Rickard lUckard a member of the actress actress' stage company also Is In the hospital He lie suffered a badly Injured hand an and a It cut near the right car Miss Duncan and Rickard were motoring from San Francisco where ley had gone to bid goodbye to Vivians Vivian's sister Rosetta who departed for o or New York on a business business business busi busi- ness trip when their car was struck by another machine containing con con- taming two unidentified m men n. n They fled after the accident abandoning abandon abandon- ing their car The accident occurred oc oc- oc- oc at Del Rio HIo two miles from here iE reo The Duncan sisters recently completed completed com corn a stage engagement at Los Angeles and soon were were to start star work on a film n production of their play With Vivian confined to her bed here and Rosetta en route to Continued onti ue on page 01 DANCERS DANCER'S CAREER I r FEARED NEAR END 1 Continued from page 1 1 New York this is said to be the first time the famous sisters have been separated S r The Duncan sisters sister started their Topsy and EVa in San Francisco and and then moved to Chicago and New York I f About two years ago Rosetta charged that police of Ill broke her nose and gave her tier a ablack ablack ablack black eye and ard a brol broken en rib and in injured In in- her brother Harold when the tile two were vere driving through th tM flown town and failed to Observe a boUlevard boulevard boule boUle- vard yard stop atop sign Police charged the pair resisted arrest r I |