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Radio News for November, 1928
of light which sought him out; his features
twisted into a typical Diavolo sneer, and
as clearly as if in a sub- title, the watching
world read the words the thin lips shaped:
"Foiled again! Cur -r-rse you, Harold
Dare!"
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"The basis of my latest plot," said Dandy
Diavolo in a public statement an hour later,
as he was being swiftly transported in a
cabin plane to Los Angeles, where the
agents of justice awaited him, "was discovered
by Hertz half n century ago, when
he discovered that ultra- violet light facilitated
the passage of a spark across a gap.
It was later found that this was due to
ionization of the air, and that the effect
was intensified if waves of still higher fre-
quency were used. In order to put the
Wolf Creek line out of commission, I set
up a bank of powerful X -ray tubes in the
valley below a tower on the Wolf Creek
line. The beams of X -rays thus projected
upon the insulators ionized the air so that
the high voltage easily ,jumped across over
the insulators, which were already under
severe electrical stress, as indicated by the
corona. No matter how large an insulator
had been placed on this tower, the current
would still have broken it down. Only the
long arm of coincidence saved Harold Dare,
as always, from the working of my plot."
"What have you to say as to the way
in which the plot was foiled, Mr. Dare?"
asked a reporter.
"To set at rest the fears of my public
regarding the skeletons which Were seen
upon the tower, let me first assure them that
they saw merely ordinary X -ray pictures
of the linemen at work, exactly as if taken
by a doctor's X -ray. The photoelectric cell
used in the televisor responded to the N -rays
from Dinvolo's tubes, which, traveling on
through the linemen, threw shadows upon
the television field. When the lights were
on, these shadows were too faint to he seen;
but when the power was accidentally disconnected,
they came into prominence. Let
me merely remind my public that this episode
reiterates the great truth taught by
every Dare super -special: namely, that in
the end, right will inevitably triumph over
wrong, and evil -doing will receive its just
punishment. The long arm of coincidence
is merely the agent of ,justice, which, acting
also through the hand of Fate, always
finally catches the wrong -doer in the clutch
of circumstance. This time Dandy Diavolo
has gone a step too far.' Retribution has
overtaken him, and during the next score
or more of years when he will sit in the
stone cells of the penitentiary, he will have
abundant time to meditate upon the truth
of this statement."
A BIG CONSTRUCTION JOB
VAUDEVILLE FAX: "Which do you prefer,
the Keith or Lorw circuit ?"
RETIRED HAM: "I can't really say; I
haven't built a set for some time."
HE HAD A GRIEVANCE
":4fv name is William Ransom Nathan
Young!" roared the angry caller at the
broadcast station.
"What if it is?" asked the polite attendant.
"What if it is!" thundered the caller.
"Why, this station, without getting my permission,
or even asking me, is using nay
initials! "-Gut/ T. Ermax.
(We advised him. 'to have it changed to
Kasper De Koren Awberson.)
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