A CINEMA CURE
SOLDIER'S HEARING AND SPEECH RESTORED BY FUNNY PICTURE. There was a remarkable incident in tlis Palace Cinema, Aiutrec, Liverpool, recently, when a .soldier, Corpoial Robert Beck, of the Army Service Corps, who bad been made a doaf mute in Flanders, had Ms hearing and speech restored to him. Ho was watching a funny picture in which tlie antics of a comedian made him laugh immoderately. . , ■ Suddenly, he says, ho felt a Burning in his throat, and a curious sensation in his ears, as though they were about to hurst. Then he heard a shout, and, to his surprise, found it was his own voice. Ho grasped the arm of one ot his comrades. "Come onout, he exclaimed; "I've got my voice again! In the entrance hall Beck seized tna hand of the manager, and thanked him for tho funny -picture, and then, taking from his pocket the notebook with tho aid of which he had been carrying 011 his conversations in writing, he ripped it in two and throw tho pieces away. "No need for that now, he said. I am speechless no longer. A\ith his comrades he' went back to the military hospital to report his dramatic recovory.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2600, 23 October 1915, Page 15
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202A CINEMA CURE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2600, 23 October 1915, Page 15
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