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...That may be so. Still, they couldn't have thought he was Butch Mc-Guiness, the hammer thrower. At least the students knew that here was an old gentleman of academic demeanor who would have nothing worthwhile to contribute if the talk veered around to the relative merits of Camera and Jack Shar- key. If A. Lawrence Lowell wants to know what students talk about he'd better send a dictaphone next time and stay away.. . . He might even hear something about A. Lawrence Lowell...
Lightning rod of the modern press is the news-camera man. Most persons who are subjected to unwelcome publicity see the wisdom of treating reporters civilly. But let a camera click and click goes something in the overwrought subject's brain. If anyone is going to get hit it is the camera man. During the past fortnight, press lightning rods had the following experiences...
...Journal Post made a "shot." Senator Reed. 69, slapped the jaw of Photographer Cauthen, 30. Next day appeared on the frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head. As it is, we think Photographer Cauthen deserves a medal for . . . self restraint and dignity...
...Milwaukee, out of a star-chamber divorce hearing walked a Mrs. Annette Seyfert and her lawyer, into camera-range of Photographer Leland M. Benfer of the Wisconsin News and Sentinel. Mrs. Seyfert had hysterics. The lawyer "assaulted and battered" Photographer Benfer. Mrs. Seyfert went to court and secured an injunction restraining the News and Sentinel from taking or publishing her picture. The News and Sentinel girded their loins for a great "freedom of the press" battle. To the newspapers' disappointment, the court granted a motion of Mrs. Seyfert's lawyer to drop the case...
...only a slightly more conspicuous accomplishment. He didn't actually try his German on the ticket-girl at the Repertory box-office, but when he went in to see "Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt" well, he was supremely confident of his linguistic ability. The music was beautiful, the camera work nearly perfect, but just why did the girl go into dinner alone and what was the point of the scene anyway, and do all German movies have so many unintelligible jokes in them? The Vagabond kept up with the struggle for about two reels, then lapsed into a blase indifference...