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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...
...open water, a strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when...
...hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...
...fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey's 1,040-lb. marlin. But the mako is the only shark which will take fast-moving bait, and at leaping, it is unsurpassed. Tarpon and sailfish also leap clear of the water, but not so high. And like those of tuna and marlin which thresh...
Justice Edward J. McGoldrick ruled against a jury. Counsel ordered Helen Kane to remove her coat, arrange her hair like Betty Boop. Defendant Fleischer produced three babyfaced young women who do the singing for Betty Boop cartoons. A court anteroom was darkened and three Betty Boop cartoons and one reel of a Helen Kane picture were projected on the wall. After this, Justice McGoldrick ruled that he had had enough, demanded records and music sung by Helen Kane and Betty Boop before he made a decision. Grown fatter but still talking with the voice of an indignant doll, Helen Kane...