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Show Insect Stabs 'Parke; He Gets $1000 By FREDERICK C OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD. May 4 (UP) A Mr. Parkyakarkua was driving down Sunset boulevard the day before be-fore yesterday when an Insect lit on his hand and sank It fang Into him. The wound Inflicted by the bee. or wasp 01 a Mr. Parkyakarku surmised sur-mised black widow spider began to awall alarmingly. It waa then that Mr. Karkus spied th Hollywood branch of th Los Angele municipal clinic. He went lnsid and called for a doctor. It was an emergency. A nurse sat down and took hi record. Wa he married? Yes. What wa hi profession? An actor. Where did he live? "But, lady, I'm dying," Mr. Kar-kua Kar-kua said, displaying his ballooning fist "Whsr do you 11 vT" h Insisted. In-sisted. He eonfesssd that Beverly Hill wa hi horn. She said ah was sorry, but this was Hollywood. Mr. Karkus said It was a matter of minute before he'd be calling on an undertaker. She questioned him some more. Did he have any children? chil-dren? Two. What was hi apartment apart-ment number? H lived In hi own house. Property owner ought to be able to hire their own phyaiciana, ah aald. But this was an emergency, Mr. Karkus instated. If aha didn't get him to a doctor, hi blood would be on her hand. Sh questioned him hum mora, strolled into the next office to what time it was, noted th exact mlnut on Mr. Kar-ku Kar-ku record and eventually escorted him Into th doctor. H alao began to queatlon Mr. Karkus. "But my hand." Mr. Kar-Irua Kar-Irua said heatedly. "Will I lose it? Cm n f . II mv wifa hsfnr vau on. erate?" "Oh, that," said the doctor, glancing glanc-ing at his injury. "Just goon bom and forget about It" Mr. Karku wsnt home, but he didn't forget For a dinner guest he had Mr. Pete Smith, tbe director of oddity movies at Metro studios. Mr. Smith thought Mr. Karkus' story very funny. He suggested that Mr. Karkus call at th studio and repeat It to Mr. Jack Chertok, ths head of the shorts department Mr. Karku called yaaterday. Mr. Chertok thought likewii that th atory had ita momenta. He called In Mr. Robert Benchley, the comedian, come-dian, and Mr. Karku told hta tale again. So all th movl maker ahook bands with Mr. Karkus, gently because be-cause of his injury, and laughed. Mr. Karkus wsnt home again. Today he received from the scenario department a check for 11000 In payment for all right to th atory of th Insect which Mr. Benchley will memorialise immediately imme-diately on sound film. Even Mr. Karkus real name, Harry Einstein as amaaed. |