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...from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema, in 1912, was a talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries for actors were common in Hollywood; Ernest Torrence said: "Talk like that makes a Scotchman intoxicated...
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...
...they had seen in many a day. From away up North had come one old lady who doubtless would not have made the long trip for any other occasion-Mrs. James Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President of the U. S.- and from Florida had come Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. They, with 21 other persons, were at Georgia's Mt. Berry on the tenth annual "Berry Pilgrimage'' gotten up and directed by a younger woman. Manhattan's Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving money...
Died, Alphonso David Rockwell, 92, pioneer electrotherapeutist, ardent opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn...
...knew-and disgruntled young men, smarting under the tyranny of I. A. & A., began to desert their posts and come to him by night. Soon he had a picked corps. Directors of I. A. & A. wanted no trouble with Knox, partly because of his fame (he was the Lindbergh-Edison-Einstein of his day) but mostly because they feared some threatening invention up his sleeve. Sure enough, Knox had discovered Motive Air: utilization of elements in the air itself to drive airplanes at a speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully guarded laboratory he had built more than...