The News-Herald from Franklin, Pennsylvania • Page 7

THB HEWg-HERALD. FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY. PA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 6, 1949.

rxr.F 9FVEN BY J. R. WILLIAMS OUT OUR WAY Chief "rry Jack'on reported, controlJi the situation. Synthetic Vitamin A Slight Damage Caused Sy Fire in Automobile Grocfc, Frances Top Musical Clown, Keeps 'Em Laughing Though He's 69 In some respects, piore known of the topography of the moon than of the ocean floor, and more is known of the movements of certain stars than of ocean An Oldsmobiie coach belonging to Miss Martha J. Kroenert, 14 North Boquet Street, Pittsburgh, took fire at o'clock List -vening.

The car was on Fifteenth Street at Chestnut. .1 i-l Avaibbla, Wilhcut Annoying Fish Odor By PAUL r. ELLIS. United Press Science Writer. 5 By ROSETTE HAKGROVE.

PARIS XEA Honoring veter- 3 an entertainers with film biog- A new 70-ton luxury airliner has been dive-tested at a speed of 498 mph. nuo iraiung io me cars radio were shorted and ablaze. Prompt; work by the fire NEW YORK UP Synthetic A A raphies, like "The Jolson Story," 5 seems to' be catching. Now France 4 is doing it, with the beloved musi-J cal clown, Crock, as the hero of the niece. Vitamin A minus the fish odor and taste of the natural product is now available.

For the first time, the growth vitamin in synthetic form is being sold in capsules. Furthermore, it has been given an odor fa Cm; 1 am be Grock his real name is Charles Adrien Wettach has made two generations of Europeans and a smattering of Americans happy with his gay clowning, his grotesque costumes, his collection of weird musical instruments. WELL. OF ALL I HAP TP DO ssrjZZM I TK CAMPlW I I STUNTS I EVER VOU BtAMtCET gA saw whuts In fullecswere rA TK RIDGE POLE MA ANDPAPERJ5 Lfe FOR? Ss ME i TWO r-rrO-VKA WITH THAT THE ROLLER BEARIM6 it of violets obtained synthetically from the well-known lemon grass oil. The first synthesis off Vitamin Now 69, the veteran, star of A was announced two years ago by scientists in Switzerland, Holland and the United States, and music hails and circuses is still you 2 jars of any salad dressing you name if you don't tikm BENNETT'S SALAD DRESSING better far better than any ther you hava ever tasted! ReciatFMes.kx.

TmlfaeU.lai eoine stronff. Without his as in most cases the nation's labor paint, be looks like a retired professor. But once he smears his atories were not prepared to manufacture it on a large scale. make-up on his long, rather sad- An announcement from the Wil liam D. Warner St Co.

said today, however, that synthetic Vitamin A 4 looking face, he all clown. Grock would probably have followed in his father's footsteps as a watchmaker had not a small traveling circus set up its tent near his native village, Reconvil- is now being made sufficiently large quantities to offer it to the public. On up, Stage: In his make Grock is all clown. Off Stage: Grock looks like retired professor. It should be welcome news for ler, on the Franco-Swiss border, The offer of a nine-week en decided to repeat the act.

The wnen ne was eignt. those who must take Vitamin A because the natural produce, ob rope started sagging. Without a moment's hesitation I grabbed it tained from fish liver oils such as halibut, shark and Tuna, was with both hands and finished the gagement took him to New York in 1920. "Although the American public was sympathetic, my act did not go over as well as it did in the The boy went home dreaming ef flip-flaps, handsprings, tightrope walking and clowning, all of which he immediately began to YES! CAPITAL trip this way. Never in my long career have I ever been so thrilled characterized by an unpleasant fishy smell and flavor.

High State of Purity. I In disclosing that synthetic per by applause as on that occasion. GIVES YOU fftW practice in the parental back yard. About the same time, young old country," comments Grock. "Maybe it was too European at When he left school at 14, that time.

But I would love to cnanes was developing consider able talent. Grock's father decided it was time he should think seriously of his future and forget clowning. He apprenticed him to a watchmaker LOAN fumed Vitamin A was available, Dr. H. M.

West of the Warner Company recalled that scientists for years had been attempting to THAN A "father was known as the best for miles around," he re calls, "and Mother used to ac to learn the trade. This lasted six complete the synthesis. Some of coynpany him on the guitar. There an ancient upright piano at have the opportunity of going back there. It's all a question of The year before the outbreak of World War II, Grock retired.

But the attraction of the footlights proved too strong and, in 1947, he accepted a six-week engagement at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris. He showed that, at 69, he I the earliest work was done by Dr. Paul Karrer of Switzerland, but weeks. For five years he job hopped, working as waiter, pi anist and tutor. A lintere desire lo make the loan.

Respect for your confidence, Personal consideration, Friendly attention, Understanding, Better service these are the things you get BESIDES the loan. Before you decide, investigate. No obligation. But always in the back of his mind was the desire to join a Riome and already at five years o('id I had started picking out tunes b'y ear." When he was 10, after he had wen his first "musical clown," he set to work building rudimentary 'musical instruments which were real circus. In 1903, he finally was offered an engagement in an "eccentric musical act" and it was then he adopted the name of LOANS UP TO $300 IN ONE TRIP eventually to become the greatest attraction of his act.

"The first big moment in my life," declares Grock, was when he couldn't quite match the complicated molecule that forms the natural vitamin. Later on an English chemist, Dr. Ian Heilbron, carried the work still further, but he, too, could not produce the complete synthesis. In the meantime, the vitamin was obtained in concentrated form from fish oils. It was satisfactory, but enormous quantities of fish oils were needed to obtain the concentrate.

Now the Warner scientists, using the knowledge of the earlier workers, have come up with the synthetic substance. It has been obtained in a high state of purity, they reported. Just 'phone "how much" and "when." We'll be ready when you come In. Cll rhon. tS.

Grock. From then on, for close to 50 years, he toured in both circus and vaudeville. Grock has appeared in every capital in Europe and before many crowned heads in command performances, with his acrobatic, musical clowning act. His tal could still make children and grown-ups laugh. His life story, "Au Revoir Monsieur Grock," is, in reality, a plea for international peace and understanding.

Co-starring with the old clown is Henry Cassidy, an American newscaster, in his familiar role of commentator of world events. Three school boys represent the children who invariably are the principal sufferers in all wars. Proceeds are being donated by Grock to French war orphans. replaced a tight-rope walker i -t i FINANCE CORPORATION 1I1KILL DRIVERS Sammy Lowrey, Patsy Williams and Joe Lowry nonchalantly wave to their audience just before the performance. Sammy and two assistants climb walls, criss-cross and strain the speedometer in a motorcycle stunt act guaranteed to thrill any audience.

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