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Show 00 ACTRESS STILL RETAINS SMILE With Broken Spine and Skull Fractures She Fights Off Death NEW YORK. Jan. 30 Miss Maty Moore, actress, who has been fighting fight-ing death with cheerfulness and the determination of youth since she received re-ceived a broken spine and three fractures frac-tures of the skull in an automobile accident two months ago. Sunday returned, re-turned, a convalescent, to her home. In a farm house at Babylon, Lnnt; Island, when- she was taken after an accident on last November 19. Mis-Moore Mis-Moore wns told by surgeons that sin could not live. She laughed and said: "Why so pessimistic0 I'll live to be an old lady!" She wai placed in a plaster cast and removed to the Broad street hospital. Her smiles and determination to live won the admiration of the attendants. Noted surgeons came to see her. among them Dr. Adolf Lorenz, of Vienna She laughed and passed pleasant replies with' him. He told her she was the pluckiest girl he ever had seen After that meeting Miss Moore improved im-proved rapidly. She arranged Saturday Satur-day wlih her brother to surprise her folks and was carried Into her home Bunday morning at breakfast time. "Home at last." she remarked .u she was carried Into the house. |