CARL BRISSON—HERO.
Leaping to the ajd of a player paralysed by current from a short-circuited electric cable on a Paramount sound stage, Carl Brisson recently saved a man from death by electrocution. Both the star's hands were painfully burned in the rescue. The accident occurred during the production of Brisson's new Paramount, picture, "Ship Cafe." Brisson and a group of players were supposed to be stokers aboard an ocean liner and were shovelling coal into the furnaces. Suddenly Harry Woods, the aqtor, next to Brisson, stiffened and shrieked. Blue sparks shot from an iron pinch bar he was using to shake down the fire. Realising that a wire from one of the powerful arc lights used to illuminate • the set must have become short-circuited with the metal furnaces and that1 the heavy voltage was flowing through Woods's body, Brisson leaped at him and knocked the bar from his grasp.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 14
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