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...dash of Dutch. He has studied forestry, worked in a lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb is in St. Paul getting material for his next book...
This preposterous scrap of Americana is so well suited to the needs of sentimental cinema that it may well make cinemaddicts wonder why Hollywood's operetta impresarios bother to invent stodgy plots for their productions instead of adapting the up-to-date inventions of the past. Admirers of Victor Herbert will not need to be reminded that the score of Naughty Marietta contains, in addition to "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," such minor classics as "I'm Falling in Love with Someone," "The Italian Street Song," and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sing them to perfection...
Since there is a dandruff germ, the disease must be catching, Drs. Moore & Kile imply. Someone may invent a vaccine against it. Meantime if any of the 165 manufacturers of hair tonics supposed to eradicate dandruff can prove that their stuff actually reaches and kills Pityrosporum ovalis, they should do a big business with the 25,000,000 U. S. men who suffer with dandruff...
...really necessary for Stillman to cause forty victims' friends such sorrow? Just think, 400 people are probably undergoing our tragic experience this very hour. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell did invent a gadget known as a telephone and some enthusiastic disciple actually found that extensions were feasible, cheap and quite satisfactory. Surely, the installation of one in the ward would not clash too much with the Victorian setting...
Just 50 years ago this coming July Pasteur first used a vaccine on a human being. It was rabies vaccine, which Pasteur administered to Joseph Meister an Alsatian child chewed by a mad dog. The boy recovered, and bacteriologists began to invent vaccines, the moment they dicovered the cause and method of transmission of a disease...