Word: cameramen
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...When a potent politician, invites press photographers into his home and allows them to picture his private life, everyone realizes that he will soon be a candidate for a bigger & better public job. Two months ago Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas thus opened his Topeka home to news cameramen. Last week pictures were taken of carved teakwood chairs and tables, Chinese paintings and embroideries, lacquered boxes, Oriental screens at No. 2101 Connecticut Ave., Washington. Next day the Press discovered that Senator William Edgar Borah was definitely, openly and finally a candidate for President...
Instead H. R. H. took the wheel of his car again, drove to the north entrance of No. 10 Downing St. just off the Horse Guards Parade. For nearly an hour he conferred with Mr. Stanley Baldwin. News cameramen, mostly the hardest-boiled of journalists, were asked by Edward not to snap him "in the circumstances." Not a single camera was raised, not a single shutter snapped...
There newshawks chattered at the extended press tables. Capitol policemen in uniform circulated through the moving throng, trying to maintain order. A little knot of elderly financiers from Manhattan stood by themselves like new arrivals to be introduced at a large reception. And everywhere cameramen swarmed, climbed over one another, mounted chairs & tables, formed a living pyramid above half a dozen Senators who sat, all but lost from sight, at a long table at the end of the room...
From camouflaged amplifiers high over-head a hollow voice suddenly began to croak: Senator Gerald P. Nye was saying that as soon as the witnesses had been sworn, cameramen would please retire. Three white-thatched witnesses stood up. The amplifiers carried the clunk-clunk-clunk of cameras along with the words of the oath. Flashlamps flickered like heat lightning...
...speechless," sat down. Later he developed a pat speech praising technical develop ments in U. S. cinema. Up to last week Author Wells firmly preserved the appearance of a pleasant, reserved, phlegmatic Briton. Last week, ready to leave the U. S., h.e was asked to pose for news-cameramen. Gaily borrowing a camera, he stuck a press badge in his hat, pretended to be snapping Musicomedy Star Ethel (You're the Top) Merman (see cut). Asked in Manhattan for a statement on the state of the world, he declared: Gentlemen, in his next picture Charlie Chaplin will not talk...