Word: newsreelers
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...Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges of France General Alexander Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia Admiral Philippe Berthelot Police Inspector Calestin Galli Policeman Felix Forestier Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen was not alone in his plot. Acting on secret tips, police on the French border arrested two men attempting to slip over the line...
...famed shot of New York's Mayor Gaynor, taken a second after a bullet struck him in the neck. But no complete view of an assassination-before, during & after the act -was ever caught by the camera lens until last fortnight at Marseilles. The heroes were the newsreels. The stage could not have been set more neatly. Press agents for the Quai d'Orsay, eager that the visit of King Alexander to France get wide publicity, gave the cameramen carte blanche. Eight U. S. and European newsreel crews, some with sound trucks, were allowed to swarm so close...
Many short features, worthless except for the newsreel, round out the program, and detract from the impression created by the feature. For the first time in many moons it was this reviewer's pleasure to hear an audience rise and cry out against one of those inane comedies that seem somehow always to amuse the girl behind...
Perhaps the most burningly vivid and terrible newsreel ever filmed, the assassination of King Alexander, and of Barthou, and the subsequent lynching of the assassin, recreates in full on the screen the tragedy of Marseilles. No one should miss seeing this...
BABY MANNFRIED, square-faced and broad-beamed, was born ten months ago. He is the only one in the Hauptmann family who takes no interest in his father's plight. Chubby Mannfried smiled happily while his mother, in tears, sang a German lullaby for a newsreel...