Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a newsreel, ballyhooed thus: "Will it make you a $20,000-a-year...
...must not be supposed from these two incidents that Rasputin and the Empress consists entirely of gore and gunpowder. It starts as a pedestrian historical romance, documented with occasional newsreel shots. The Tsarina pats her children on the head. Chegodieff makes love to a lady in waiting (Diana Wynyard). Rasputin endears himself to his betters by curing the ailing Tsarevitch with hypnotism. He acquires control of the government by conspiring with the head of the secret police, loses favor by trying to paddile into the bedroom of an adolescent princess...
...office man corresponding to Political Secretary Walter Newton and Research Secretary French Strother. An oldtime Washington Times man, he handled the Navy's Press relations during the War, caught the eye of the Assistant Secretary whom he helped campaign in 1920. A year ago he left Pathé Newsreel to go to Albany as the Governor's personal Press representative and later as general factotum and business manager of his campaign. Few White House visitors will see his cadaverous face...
Into Manhattan's Town Hall where many earnest musicians have made drab little debuts and never been heard from again, there crowded one afternoon last week flashlight and newsreel photographers, traffic cops and star reporters. The occasion was just one more debut. A product of Manhattan's lower East Side was going to show how he could sing. But this one's name happened to be Alfred Emanuel Smith. He was making a debut to boost the New York Infirmary for Women & Children for which Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip's comely, energetic wife collects funds...
...Amherst township near Buffalo, Police Chief Evans saw William J. Klute, whom he had long wanted on charges of robbery, in a newsreel tuning up one of the late William Wrigley's motorboats. He wired Manhattan police to arrest Tuner Klute, went...