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Reputedly the cabinet approved in camera last week for early submission to Parliament, a bill providing that in a three-cornered contest for a parliamentary seat wherein no candidate has an absolute majority the re-vote shall be only on the two leaders in the original polling...
...larger colleges of the country and after which they intend to pick ten men who will then be given every opportunity by the First National Corporation to become screen stars. Sometime next month, to be announced later by the sponsors of the plan, a make up man, a camera man, and a competent judge of photographic personality and studio requirements will come to Cambridge. These men will choose ten applicants whom they will "shoot" immediately. The films will then be sent to California for inspection and by the first of June it will be known whether...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...Aldo Nuti countermands the precautions. He begs to be allowed to demonstrate his flawless marksmanship, if not his courage. The Nestoroff watches with the rest as they release the tiger and the director cries, "Ready, shoot!" Serafino Gubbio cranks his camera, inside the cage with Nuti. Aldo Nuti aims carefully and shoots, not the tiger, but the Nestoroff. The tiger tears him apart. Gubbio cranks on until someone fires pointblank through the bars into the tiger's ear. He thereby achieves perfection as a cinematograph operator. Emotionless? Oh, no. His suppressed terror strikes him dumb forever after. But except...
Shoot, the operator of a moving picture camera, whose business is merely to turn the handle and observe, becomes almost as impersonal as his machine. As it registers sham, he registers life. The difference is that he comments; he comments endlessly. Marcel Proust alone could analyse motives and emotions more exhaustively. And I am afraid that only a person who really enjoys Proust, or who has read ""Ulysses"" from cover to cover will be able to wade through Pirandello's novel...