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...next afternoon Speaker Garner, snappish and irritable, found a hideaway from newsmen in Representative Warren's office at the Capitol. There he sat behind an open door for four hours, listened by radio to his own nomination. He told news cameramen he felt "too bad" to pose for them...
...most profitable pictures of the year. It did not cost much. RKO bought the rights to Frank Buck's book, telling how he captured live wild animals for U. S. zoological gardens (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930), then despatched Author Buck to Sumatra with a director and two cameramen to take pictures of the procedure. Director Clyde E. Elliott knew that people like wild animal cinemas for the same reason that they like the tigers in the circus. Remembering UFA's brilliant short of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, he saw to it that there were plenty...
...first a story by Hungarian Dramatist Ernest Vajda, then a silent cinema, Service for Ladies with Adolphe Menjou in 1927. Amusing in both versions, its comedy is steadily improving with repetition. Hungarian Director Alexander Korda directed this talking version in England for Paramount, with U. S. money, English actors, cameramen, staff.* Leslie Howard does his usual discreet, effortless, alert job, delivering the bright lines of the dialog as though he habitually talked that way. George Grossmith as a tall, rheumatic, liverish, twinkling ramrod King, is a sly parody of Sweden's Gustaf...
Long years ago the future President Paul Doumer attended the wedding of the future dean of Paris cameramen. Last week it came about that bearded Photographer Piston was standing with his flashlight upraised, his camera trained on the patriarchal President at the precise instant when a tall, burly Russian bounded forward and fired point-blank at M. Doumer with a Colt pistol. Instantly dropping his flashlight, Photographer Piston wielded his camera like a club, beating the assassin over the head, stunning him momentarily-and throwing away the chance to make a Picture of the Century...
Judge Horner received the primary returns in Boss Cermak's City Hall office. When cameramen arrived, he modestly disappeared. Boss Cermak, after ordering him back over the telephone, explained : "He says he'll come when he gets damn good & ready. I guess that proves I'm not his boss." Later Nominee Horner returned to be photographed but objected when cameramen ordered: "Take off your coat-shake your fists-hold your hands above your head." Mayor Cermak tried to get him to comply. When he still refused, Boss Cermak again loudly boasted that his nominee was unbossed...