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...young doctor who, experimenting with synthetic animation, produces a live, dangerous and somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could possibly be inserted...
Peerless hero of U. S. mariners is Captain Ahab, the vindictive old salt who sailed the southern oceans screaming for more canvas, cursing tired crews, laughing wildly into the gale as he hunted the Great White Whale, Moby Dick, who had cost him a leg. Last week U. S. mariners heard a voice reminiscent of the great mad Ahab-almost...
...huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could take place, last week one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went...
After a few years at his father's forge. Preserved Fish III shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, at 21 became its captain. Shrewd, he recognized a fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in getting it. He prospered as a merchant in New Bedford, had a political squabble, sold his property cheap, settled in New York. At the height of his business career he was one of the 28 brokers of the New York Exchange Board which later became the New York Stock Exchange. He controlled a potent shipping firm of Fish & Grinnell which had its beginnings...
...Paul Whiteman who once weighed 305 lb., is now reported to have reduced to 210. He would have been impudent if he had smiled at the late William Howard Taft who weighed 340 lb. while in the White House, later got down to 250. The Ringling Circus giantess Ima Whale weighs 630 lb. Heaviest monster in history was Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 lb., died in England in 1809. A monster less cheerful than Carnera is Mathias Sticz, 506 lb., who tried to kill himself at Budapest...