Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

12 = UNIVERSAL WEEKLY = Apr;ir? |933 Famous Artist Illustrates No. 28 HAT do you think of a man who can eat twelve pounds of spaghetti, seven tons of hot dogs, three quarts of icecream and seventy hard boiled eggs, all in one day? Besides that, Joe Raggio, who already weighs 800 pounds, drank a gallon of coffee and three quarts of water. Joe lives in Philadelphia, but he hasn't been out of his house in fifteen years. When he went into the house, the doors were okay, but Joe is so topheavy now that the doors are too small. No tailor, no matter how hard up he was, would get a break if Joe gave him an order for a suit of clothes. It takes eight yards of cloth to make one pair of trousers for him. E. L. Blystone of Ardara, Pennsylvania, is the world's most accomplished trick penman. In "Strange As It Seems" No. 28, this amazing writer is shown in an astounding feat. Strange as it seems, he writes 2871 separate and distinct letters in ink on a single grain of rice. "Strange As It Seems" No. 28 discovers a new kind of food. It is rattlesnake meat. George End of Arcadia, Florida, puts up this delicacy in cans which sell for $1-25 per. He says that there is a good demand for it and that it is very palatable indeed. There is a huge wine cellar at Guasti, in California, to which this number of "Strange As It Seems" takes its huge audience. Here it shows under a microscope the forces of bacteria which are responsible for fine wines. It also shows Marius Bianne, its first-string wine taster. Bianne can tell at a taste the exact alcoholic content of every wine. The Soba boys of Tokyo combine a number of varieties of dexterity in their profession. Soba is a Japanese form of spaghetti. It is made from Buckwheat. However it cools off very quickly. It is a favorite dish in Tokyo and most everyone orders it from the restaurants and has it delivered hot at the luncheon or dinner table. The remarkable boys who are called Soby boys deliver huge trays of the steaming soba on bicycles. The trays they balance on their shoulders, while they thread there way through heavy traffic and at top speed. "Strange As It Seems" also shows you Lionel Billbrook of Bremen, Germany. Early in life certain glands in Lionel's face started to work over-time and now his face is covered with several inches of long hair. He looks very much like a lion. In addition to these scenes, which John Hix has drawn there are scenes in the Vatican where the Pope has established a remarkable industry. He has revived the ancient mosaic art of the thirteenth century. We are shown also a wood-chuck in hibernation. The wood-chuck hibernates like a bear. Strange as it seems, he can be dug out of his hole in the middle of winter without disturbing this all-winter sleep, but the minute he is brought into a heated room, he wakes up and crawls out of the blanket in which he has been wrapped, and starts to look around for food. Hi6h/i6hh in Uniuersa! s As It Sed ?AlATA?LE rattlesnake MEAT IS CANNED 6EOR6E END IN ARCADIA, (r flORiDA Remarkable and interesting people and facts collected by John Hix , famous artist , and shown in his daily and weekly newpaper cartoons form ideal entertainment for theatre audiences . l\o. 28 of Universal’s “ Strange As It Seems ” is filled with engrossing oddities. John Hix has personally prepared this illustration for Universal Weekly. We will send reproduction on request. The Biggest Star Names in the Radio World Are Yours in UNIVERSAL’S RADIO SHORTS