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...just an accident that led me into this kind of work. I came over from Denmark in 1913, not knowing a word of English, and just stumbled into a job with Davy's, over on Hay Street, who at that time was in the business of making shells. I worked with them until 1925, when Harvard employed me. We had made shells for boat clubs all over the country during that time...
They go out to the barn to inspect a sound-recording gadget he has invented while the pressagent-chaperon anxiously asks: "Is there any hay out there?" Carole comes back declaiming: "This is the greatest thing for pictures since the Warner Brothers stretched forth their hands and said, 'Let there be Sound.' " Deciding to stay all night, Carole appears for dinner in a blinding dress apparently made of tinfoil, determines to take the young man to Hollywood...
...Devil's Island, afflicted with gland trouble and nearly blind, the central figure in the most famed of France's causes célebrès was passing his 75th birthday. For the running of the Langollen National Steeplechase on his Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next...
...Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., were held the annual elections of the Ca-Choo Club, composed of 118 visiting hay fever sufferers. L. E. Harris sneezed so hard he blew his glasses ten feet across the room, was promptly re-elected president...
Running away from the police with a bullet in his arm, Lucky Wilson comes upon Pa Miller (Whitford Kane), a pros perous hay and chicken farmer, living in a saltbox house by Cedric Gibbons. The Miller family?Pa, Ma, Pauline (O'Sulli van), who teaches school, and her little brother Willie?do their best to make Lucky feel at home. Willie shows him the rabbits. Pauline takes him cherry picking. Says she : "You have to whistle when you're picking cherries to show that you're not eating any." When the detectives finally catch up with Lucky Wilson...