Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club two Boston newscameramen set up their tripods in the Harvard Yard, snapped Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. wearing brassiere and panties over the costume of a Pudding initiate. On the edge of a crowd of students Freshman John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, caught sight of the cameras, demanded the plates of his brother. Refused, he leaped on the back of the nearest photographer, wrested the negatives from the camera, exposed them to the light. Meanwhile the other cameraman was slipping quietly away. Long-legged John raced through the Yard after him, made a flying tackle, hung...
...Hollywood spy had detected them before in her performances as Teresa in The Cradle Song, Mrs. Elvsted in Hedda Gabler, Wendy in Peter Pen, Anya in The Cherry Orchard or 30 other rôles. Somewhat startled by sudden recognition, Cinemactress Hutchinson was treated to a thorough series of camera tests designed to find out the most effective means of photographing her angular, expressive face. Meanwhile Hollywood gossip writers pigeonholed information to use in case the tests turned out as well as Warner Brothers hoped: Josephine Hutchinson, 25, is divorced from a grandson of Inventor Graham Bell. She weighs...
...motherly, soft-spoken Mrs. Wiggs, Pauline Lord makes a promising debut into talking pictures, and she will no doubt fit well into the Marie Dressler type of role. The Wiggs children speak with similar accents, do not look at the camera, and are quite charming. True love is wholesomely portrayed by the winsome Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor, who appeared together in David Harum. The affection of the pompous Mr. Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined...
...THINK WHAT A WEEK CAN DO," moans Anna Hauptmann, exonerated of any connection with her husband's case. "A week ago we were as happy as children, and now see the trouble we have." Squinting into the police camera is Bruno Richard Hauptmann as of September 1934, Prisoner 128221 of the City of New York, indicted by the People of the State of New York for extortion, soon to be indicted by the People of the State of New Jersey for murder...
...other party began the measurements of the glaciers. Washburn himself, in order to make sure the surveys were successful, stayed at the base camp and directed operations upon the mountain with the aid of a five-meter transceiver, a miniature radio set about the size of a large camera and weighing only two and a half pounds capable of being carried in a rucksack and set up anywhere in a minute or two. This enabled Washburn, who knew the route up the mountain minutely, to talk to Carter, in charge of the packing party, for an hour or more every...