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...Manhattan arrived Giulio Marconi, 26, only son of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, to spend two years studying with Radio Corporation of America...
Nearly blind and dirt-poor, Inventor Dave Mallory (Karloff) devises a burglar alarm worked by electric eyes. He goes to sell it to Steve Ranger (Samuel Hinds), prosperous president of the Ranger System of burglar alarms, which uses wires. In his youth Dave Mallory invented that system too, but Ranger stole it. This time Ranger again succeeds in tricking Mallory, who stamps out snarling: "What I create I can destroy." With, a pocket radio set which will void the old Ranger alarm system, he sets about bringing Ranger to terms...
...guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot: a tough gangster named Fingers (Ward Bond) vibrating helplessly from the shocks of a miniature electric chair which Inventor Mallory concocts on the spur of the moment...
Glad to escape from the "congealed" atmosphere of Merion, Pa., cantankerous Albert C, Barnes, inventor of Argyrol and No. 1 U. S. modern art collector, dined with the neighboring Narberth Fire Company, compared museum directors to "cheap politicians like the Mayor of Philadelphia," firemen to true artists who "translate ideas into action and emotion into practical experience...
...devotees, who hold frequent congresses and enjoy an extensive literature either written in their tongue or translated into it. But if not already a "dead" language, Esperanto is at least a static one, for its adherents have refused to change it since 1880 when it was launched by its inventor, Dr. Lazarus Zamenhof of Poland. Says Henry Louis Mencken in The American Language: "The trouble with all the 'universal' languages is that the juices of life are simply not in them. They are the creations of scholars drowning in murky oceans of dead prefixes and suffixes...