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Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
...minutes of nonsense on the antics of news reel camera-grinders, including some scrambling on the head of a fake Statue of Liberty, Hot News becomes hilarious and develops a plot. There is a Maharajah, who has never been photographed. Miss Pat Clancy (Bebe Daniels*) and her cocky rival, Scoop Morgan, set out to film the Maharajah. Disguised as entertainers, they are admitted to a country estate where he is sojourning. They put on a dance which is really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan...
Back on her yacht Winona, Journalist Stillman renewed her ancient feud with photographers by threatening to hurl one bold fellow into the waters of Long Island Sound. Plates and crockery, not threats, had been her weapons last July, when she fell upon the persistent, scoop-seeking villains of the press at her son's wedding. On the Winona Fraulein Rasche, an interested spectator, lumbered to her cabin, rested...
...schedule, in time for the early editions, when the murderer, a meek little fellow, shoots his way out of jail. Hildy Johnson, the most agile of the newsgatherers, captures him by good luck and attempts to conceal him in a rolltop desk until he has had time to scoop the story...
...paper that accomplished the scoop was the Macon, Ga., daily Telegraph, in its special Annual Jester Edition, written by students of Wesleyan College. The editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate had read the Jester Edition and stupidly believed every word...