Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearstpapers throughout the land last fortnight, readers beheld a new column of news notes headed "The Globe Trotter." Radiowners were told they might tune in and hear "The Globe Trotter" relate his stories in more detail. At newsreel theatres were showing shots of the events thus Globe-Trotted. This ingenious coordination of press, radio and screen was the latest development of Hearst Metrotone News. The reels, distributed twice weekly by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are prepared in Manhattan but can be modified to include events of local interest where they are displayed. The name of the "sponsoring" newspaper is worked into...
...present, Trans-Lux theatres will show only Pathe, Paramount or Universal newsreels. Courtland Smith, who two years ago opened Manhattan's highly successful Embassy Theatre for newsreels only, was convinced by the success of this enterprise that a chain of newsreel theatres would be profitable. The Embassy cost $19,000 and made $150,000 in one year. In the same year, Roxy's, which cost $12,000.000, made...
...Goldschmidt-McTaggart dispute reached a climax year ago when both Colonels met at a steeplechase course for a trial by ordeal. In the presence of dozens of spurred, booted officers, newsreel photographers, both Colonels jumped many a fence, made perfect scores, resumed their argument...
...interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...
...custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...