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...produce a solvent company with flowing wells." He bought up some 300 dry oil wells, claimed a capitalization of $380,000,000, sold stock by mail. Excerpts from the Cook sales letters: "We say it with cash dividend checks, not with flowers." "Oldfashioned hell is too good for the fake oil promoter, the most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost $4,000,000 in the scheme. Where Dr. Cook claimed to have two great gushers producing...
...tremendous implications involved in the in justice of Grischa's imminent fate, he might have made a masterpiece. Instead he allowed the anecdote to remain personal. The Case of Sergeant Grischa further suffers from such imperfections as polyglot accents among the cast; the fre quent use of miniatures and fake outdoor sets, particularly in the earlier sequences; the absurd theatricality of little, linking scenes that could with no more trouble have been made natural and valid; and the miscasting of Betty Compson who, with her worn, heavily cosmetized prettiness. in a hut in the middle of a forest looks little...
...years ago Exhibitor Florence B Ilch got a telegram that said: "Your son died this morning." Mrs. Ilch fainted beside her collies at the Westminster Kennel Club show; later learned that her son was alive and well, that the telegram had been a fake. This year Exhibitor Madeline Frank's collie, Black Pirate, lay down on his bench, vomited, and after a convulsion of his sleek body, ruffled with white at the chest, closed his eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity...
...Fake Alps. In Switzerland, sensitive students attended a performance of a U. S. film entitled King of the Bernina, discovered that the advertised Swiss scenes were really taken in Alaska. Enraged at the artificial Alps, they paraded the streets of Zurich, forced the theatre manager to stop showing the film...
Egyptian Brooders. Although the dynastic Egyptians lacked artificial light with which modern poulterers perform fake sunrises to make their hens lay overtime, they used incubators to hatch out eggs. The old time hatcheries were cone-shaped mud huts heated by burning chaff. An attendant always sat within to warn against temperature too hot or too cold. Of a clutch 95% hatched successfully. William D. Mann, U. S. assistant commercial attache at Cairo, found out about the ancient Egyptian brooders when he was seeking an Egyptian market for the latest type of U. S.-made incubators...