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...true that TIME is going to put out a newsreel? If so, I wish to register two requests: 1) As a theatre manager to get the earliest possible announcement of your reel so I can have the opportunity to be one of the first to show it. 2) As a cameraman (I have 35 mm. B. & H.) to show you some of my films and be on your list to cover assignments in this territory...
...thousand eager people roped off in Washington's Union Station, not the small boys who climbed the iron fence, not the trainmen perched on the roof of the train shed, not the photographers and newsreel men nor the assemblage of notables who climbed the gangplank to his private car in order of precedence made President Roosevelt's homecoming a thing of triumph. That triumph was written large across the land in a series of popular welcomes which reduced Washington's reception to peewee proportions...
Paramount still produces more pictures than any other studio in the U. S.?64 features, 204 shorts. Adolph Zukor, who last week went to Hollywood where Emanuel Cohen, one-time newsreel specialist, is still Paramount's production chief, promised his distributors two more Mae West pictures after her forthcoming It Ain't No Sin. They are called Gentleman's Choice and Me the Queen. Whether or not Marlene Dietrich's vogue survives The Scarlet Empress, finished last April but held for release until the public forgets the queening of Garbo (Queen Christina) and Bergner (Catherine the Great), she will...
Directed by Edwin Carewe. Are We Civilised? is' stuffed to dullness with words. Farnum's harangue is illustrated with scraps of old historical films, mob and battle scenes, newsreel shots, flashes of prehistoric animals. Moses. Buddha. Confucius, Caesar, Christ. Mohammed, Columbus, Washington, Napoleon, Lincoln...
Thus did he rebuke newsreel audiences who lately applauded Desperado John Dillinger on theatre screens in Washington. Chicago and elsewhere. More significant was his promise of additional facilities to the Department of Justice. Demanding 200 more agents and fast cars armed with machine guns, Attorney General Cummings recently said: "If we had been equipped with planes or even fast motor cars . . . John Dillinger would have been captured...