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...Named for Lewis Miller, one of Chautauqua's founders, and donated by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. She presided last week at the opening meeting of Chautauqua's Bird & Tree Club...
...Villiers de I'Isle-Adam, eccentric French nobleman, spent much of his life on Paris park benches, scribbling on scraps of paper which he filed in his tattered pockets. When one batch of scraps was collated, it turned out to be a fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper...
Week after week columnists gave loud hushes, hinted that the next crashing sound would come from the Treasury's income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...
...sober and restrained performance to date. That he did not succeed entirely was partly the fault of the production, partly because the picture featured Mickey in a role so different from his usual ones that puzzled cinemaddicts did not know what bewildered them most-seeing Mickey Rooney as Thomas Alva Edison or the future Wizard of Menlo Park as ebullient Mickey Rooney...
...Charlie Edison up for Governor. Lately they have told the President in no uncertain terms that as a candidate next fall Mr. Edison would be sadly handicapped if he were passed over in his own department. The President heeded, last week announced that the son of late, great Thomas Alva Edison will be the 45th Secretary of the Navy. The wise in Washington did not waste much time and breath on the continual debate as to whether Charles Edison is an effective naval administrator. Onetime (1913-20) Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt has been heard to say that...