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Word: camera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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News cameramen about the place caused the Falls great annoyance. One evening while Fall's daughter was watering the flowers, she turned the hose on a fig tree and doused a hidden camera. A disgruntled photographer let fly a stone that grazed the sprinkler's side. Police were called in. They found Fall sitting with a shotgun across his knees, ready to shoot down any cameraman who came on the premises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fall to Jail | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Stuart Walker, able technician of Indianapolis and Cincinnati stock companies, has handled the story well but shows his unfamiliarity with the cinema by not moving his camera around enough. Actress Shannon photographs prettily. Less provocative than Clara Bow, she shows more signs of histrionic intelligence. The story, borrowed from a 20-year-old play, is still ip to date in outline but its motivations re rusty, its crucial moments creak a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...staged between able Queen Elisabeth and some of the Flemish writers, publicists, poets, playwrights and professors who had been agitating for a Change. To.all appearances the Flemish beer-party had a most happy effect?in Flanders. That a skulking French-blooded reporter was there with his snoopy concealed camera was, for the whole Belgian Royal Family, indeed for Belgium itself, a minor tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Scandal a la Hals | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Burke was two strokes ahead. He hit his ap proach too hard and it scampered across the low platform of the green 15 feet beyond the hole. Von Elm's ball went a foot further. He leaned over to putt and then looked up; the whirling of a camera had disturbed him. There was a reverent silence as he tapped his ball, watched it curl slowly toward the cup, and stop, unmiraculously this time, a yard beyond it. Burke, with three putts for a win, signalled to the cameras to take his picture. Obliging, he putted three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inverness | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Bronx beerage. In a run-in with two city detectives outside his Fifth Avenue apartment, Gangster Schultz saw one of his four henchmen shot down, fled. Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that he was on the verge of nervous prostration, asked that no camera flashlights be exploded. After he was placed under $150.000 bail (it was later halved, he was released) for carrying a gun and resisting arrest, U. S. Attorney George Zerdin Medalie announced that he was trying to bring tax evasion and bootlegging charges against the pale-faced hoodlum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: U. S. v. Gangs | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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