A Message to Garcia With guile and pluck, Lt. Andrew S. Rowan slips through the hills of Cuba's Sierra Maestra to the secret camp of Gen. Calixto Garcia. Within two weeks the record has been boosted to 87 hours. By the end of the month it has reached 167, and before the craze peters out, a St. Louis man will dance for 217 consecutive hours. Four years before The Jazz Singer, Lee de Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube, presents perfectly synchronized sound movies to the public.
Few people notice.