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...Whisenhunt, a funeral parlor proprietor of Anadarko, Okla., was Hard Luck Harry of the whole U. S. last week-and its most indefatigable airplane rider. Mr. Whisenhunt received a telegram saying that his wife was near death in a Kansas City hospital. Leaving a daughter seriously ill with whooping cough, he flew to Kansas City, found his wife better. He received a message that his daughter was worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew...
...returns again & again to watch his forceful hands. When he has finished, a small child scampers up to him, followed by her parents. He greets them, agrees to play as an encore the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Later, over the brandies, one of those inevitable cough & spit drawing-room pundits quizzes the old maestro on what seemed to him an extraordinary departure from concert-hall form-playing the Sonata as an encore. Quietly. Paderewski starts to explain what the Sonata has meant in the lives of the three he played it for. The camera takes over...
...probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade ago he actually announced a Unified Field Theory, but discarded it when flaws were detected. Later he found a way to handle particles as bridges connecting two contiguous "sheets" of space. His associates now cough sadly behind their hands when the space-sheets are mentioned, and Einstein has not pursued the matter any further. Not yet, however, has he given any sign of abandoning his search for a Unified Field Theory...
...opposite with a realistic view to the husband's fortunes. Blanche Sweet is quite satisfactory as the mild-mannered wife. Leona Powers in a somewhat younger duplicate of her mother, the hero's mother-in-law, both of them being especially moving when having partaken freely of their "cough medicine." As light merriment without a mesage, this comedy will probably take its place beside "Yes, My Darling Daughter" for a successful...
...with other diseases, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis, although these would be still further diminished if sweeping reforms, such as compulsory pasteurization of milk could be brought about...