Word: cinemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensation of Ethiopia today are newly arrived Moscow correspondents and cinemen representing Tass, official Soviet news agency. Seemingly supplied with unlimited funds and spending right & left, they say they are "preparing a complete photographic document of Ethiopia," were splashing vigorously about in Dessye last week making most elaborate shots of His Imperial Majesty for Bolsheviks to gape...
...Crushed to death were Pilot Bolton. Co-Pilot Kenneth Greeson, New Mexico's millionaire-Senator Bronson Cutting, a 20-year-old girl-sister of the TWA radio dispatcher who had been directing the plane. Injured were a mother and baby, the wife of a TWA pilot, five Hollywood cinemen and the wife of one, who died next...
...millions of British cinemaddicts this explanation sufficed. Evidently some improper fluid had been spilled by accident into The Story of the Reign of His Majesty the King. But cinemen were not satisfied. In any case the jubilee film must have been printed from cinema library footage. Even if chemicals ruined the entire new film, an extremely improbable occurrence, the library footage remains, can be printed off again. Cinemen therefore conjectured last week that the trouble could scarcely be chemical. Asked they: "Are old pictures of the King really so inspiring...
...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
...attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing the part of Sancho Panza, and the rickety don was the great Feeder Ivanovitch Chaliapin, brass-lunged old Russian basso...