Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princess visited Mount Vernon with Mrs. Roosevelt (Said she: "Why, there are no cupboards in the rooms ! Where did they hang their clothes?"). The Princess was given an ovation at a National Symphony concert in Constitution Hall, attended Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference, and, as an amateur camera enthusiast, calmly took photographs of the newscameramen snapping pictures...
...third time, lurching, monolithic Primo Camera, who pushed his way to the world's boxing championship seven years ago, was rejected for service in the Italian Army. Heavyweight Camera tried to enlist as a parachutist, was told no ordinary parachute would float his 292 pounds...
Arizona has all the symptoms of a spectacle. The prelude, in which the camera follows a long caravan across the mountains into the dirty, becrusted little town of Tucson, is filled with all the miscellany which Hollywood attaches to a scene to make it Big. The Tucson of 1860 is painstakingly reproduced to the smallest adobe-brick hut; the streets are crawling with extras, packed with props. Before the end there appear at one time or another 600 head of Hereford cattle, 485 horses, 1,200 ("thousands of") extras, 150 rippling, bare-skinned Papago Indians...
...prodigality, Director Ruggles avoided the temptation to let his camera linger longingly on this impressive and costly background. He hewed to the narrative of pretty Phoebe Titus (Tomboy Jean Arthur), the only white woman in Tucson, who earns herself a pretty penny selling pies for $1 apiece, then goes into the freighting business. The gentleman with whom she later contracts Arizona's first all-white marriage is genial, peripatetic Peter Muncie (William Holden), a slim and smiling young pioneer who rides into Tucson with other settlers and passes some fond words with Phoebe before setting out for California...
Four months later, when the case came up, Ed McNew was wheeled into court on a stretcher. Swallowing copious drafts of a colored liquid out of a medicine bottle, he wept, swore that the sight of Jones's camera had caused him to suffer a "mental explosion," won an acquittal. Outraged, the Knoxville Journal reprinted Photographer Jones's damning picture, with the scornful legend scrawled across it: "Not guilty...