Word: newsreelers
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...printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential favorite, hissing his opponent...
...Athens seated at the King's right hand in his official car amid the plaudits of the Greeks. All this was news to most of the assembled Dukes and Duchesses in Balmoral last week, for such scenes have been rigidly kept from the British newspaper-reading and newsreel-viewing public by a form of British self-censorship which in the circumstances is lèse majest...
...Manner. Two unique fictional devices, in addition to the biographies of famed individuals, interrupt the stories of these people in their rapid rises and catastrophic falls. One is the Newsreel, an effective muddle of headlines, fragments of speeches, news stories, popular songs. Each about a page long, they serve to fix the time of the action as well as to suggest the general moral and intellectual climate of the U. S. during the period. Thus the Newsreel that follows a chapter telling of Margo Dowling's miserable marriage includes a song that was popular at the moment, headline reference...
...highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets Betty Winslow (Frances Drake) when she is arrested for driving 72 m.p.h. in a 30-m.p.h. zone. His efforts to educate her to caution involve a visit to the morgue and the exhibition of a police newsreel of traffic smashups. When her alcoholic brother Jackie (Tom Brown) smashes into a school bus, killing the young son of the cop who arrested her for speeding, she takes the blame and goes to jail for murder in the second degree. The denouement consists of Knox's successful efforts...
...moment of a courtroom scene which sets an all-time high for legal realism on the screen arrives when the newsreel is projected with stopped action until most of those suspected are convicted. Now the brothers lose their nerve, shocked by the hate blazing in Joe. Even Katharine, who has just found he is alive, leaves him when he refuses her appeal to save the men he has condemned for his own murder. The judge is about to pronounce sentence when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection...