Lout

In Madison, Wis., after his eleventh dancing lesson, Farmer Seymour Moe, 41, stood in a corner of the dancing school and wept because he could not dance. For the seventh time, police came, arrested Moe for creating a disturbance, released him for the twelfth and last lesson.

Hurler

In a mountain cabin outside Los Angeles, while his hale wife writhed and screamed in a blazing dress ignited by a gasoline stove, legless, armless Frank Seymour, watching, writhed in his chair, hurled himself bodily across the room to his wife, smothered the flames with his body.

Tutor

In Chicago, arrested as a bookmaker when a detective heard him saying "Chantesuta, Poppinglong, Hydromella," over the telephone, John Schultz protested that he had been telling a friend how to pronounce the names of racehorses. He was fined $5.

Grunt

In Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra.

Test

At University of Chicago, Freshman Alan J. Kringel, 18, of Woodmere, N. Y., invented a chemical wrinkle-remover from animal blood, scowled for a month to develop a wrinkle, applied wrinkle-remover to wrinkle and cried, "It works!"

Bounty

In the St. Lawrence County, N. Y. jail. Sheriff McCormack, unable to exterminate the jail's hordes of cockroaches, offered convicts 10-c- bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With nothing else to occupy their spare time, convicts delivered thousands per day.

Subject

In a class in abnormal psychology in Atlanta, Ga.'s Emory University, Professor W. G. Workman, trying vainly to hypnotize a student for demonstration purposes by monotonous talk and having him stare at a chalk line, suddenly noticed that a watching member of the class had gone into a rigid trance. It was Charles Hudson, lonely, nervous junior, a star pupil in abnormal psychology. Professor Workman could not bring Charles Hudson out of the trance, prescribed exercise and normal activity. For three days fellow-students walked the blank-eyed boy around the campus, rode him on street cars, took him to a cinema. Suddenly, on the third day, Charles Hudson blinked, asked what had happened.

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