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...First a newsreel cameraman had himself lowered from the top of the cliff. Then So-Lat-Dowanee, a Mohawk Indian "chief," came dangling down in full tribal regalia, and began making passes with a lariat. The deer plunged perilously back & forth on the ledge, sending small stones rattling down into the gorge. Chief So-Lat-Dowanee, who had been confident of succeeding where the white man had failed, was ignominiously hauled back. He announced that he would go into seclusion, write a poem about the deer...
...While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...
...four minutes to two by the Cabinet room clock as President Roosevelt sat down at the head of the long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added...
Into Mussolini Speaks, an anthology of Italian newsreel shots released in the U. S. last week as a feature picture, has gone much extremely dim, blurry photography, but Il Duce comes to life, especially his face. Even Italians who sang Fascist anthems and cheered the preview in Manhattan last week, rocked with mirth at the Premier's rubbery platform face...
Taking more than one leaf from the same notebook which Authors Dos Passos and Alfred Doblin used, which Maestro James Joyce used before them, Halper has neatly stitched together a story contemporary, kaleidoscopically eye-witnessing as a newsreel, but more dramatically edited than most cinema. Union Square's action is more continuous but less comprehensive than Dos Passos' more ambitious book. With a half-dozen main characters, a score of walk-on parts, the story gives an animated, life-like cross-section of teeming Manhattan...