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...although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the heart of her daughter Amy (Wintfred Wellington); and though the Fishers all think Amy a nit-wit to marry him. Piper proves, by his efforts to save their talented son from being swindled out of his rights as an inventor, that he is the best friend of the family...
...feud between two Lancashire mill owners, Messrs. Jefferson and Mosscrop, an untoward romance between their respective offspring, Rosie and Reggie, Silas P. Mallinson, an American inventor, whose ingenious little device enables Owner Jefferson to turn the tables, as the saying is, upon Owner Mosscrop,--are the well worn cogs on which this obsolete old piece of dramatic machinery heavily revolves. Needless to say, Owner Jefferson bluntly refuses to countenance the romance, but the combined efforts of Owner Mosscrop who undergoes a sudden reformation of character, of Son Reggie who announces bumptiously that he is full of "grit and determination...
...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
Manufacturer Ford had suggested it. So had Inventor Edison. Their good friend, Horticulturist Luther Burbank, last week virtually decided upon it-to sell his extensive experimental gardens at Santa Rosa, Calif., not to commercial interests (that course never entered his head), not to a great and eager Eastern university ("probably Harvard"), nor yet to the University of Southern California (though that institution made "elaborate overtures"), but surely to a university whose scientists would maintain and perpetuate his labors, and what more appropriate than to Leland Stanford Jr. University, where of recent years he, the world's plant wizard...
...Inventor Hammond has perfected for the piano a device which enables the player to have control over notes after he has struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return...