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...Dionne quintuplets of Callander, Ontario, last week began what is likely to prove a long and eventful series of screen appearances. Perhaps the day will come when newsreel accounts of the daily doings of these five sisters will be as tiresomely commonplace as diving girls at Miami, Fascist youth on parade and rodeos are today. But last week there was no boredom in U. S. cinemansions as Pathe flashed on the screen what it proudly advertised as "Extra! World Scoop! Newsreel Sensation of the Year!" To get these first films of the Dionne quintuplets required bullying by Pathe President Courtland...
...count of four," said the demonstrator. "I'll release the switch that fires the cannon. On the translucent screen you'll see the bullet just as it strikes the wire...
Crack! The spectators twitched. The bullet leaped from a little copper-plated cannon, zipped into a target 50 ft. away. There was a sharp, short glow of pale blue light on the screen, where the watchers glimpsed the silhouette of the bullet, apparently motionless though it was traveling...
...great success, but cockneys with a sixpenny bit could get into a tent and gawp at a gaunt, hollow-eyed woman with stringy dark hair sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores, for nearly 25 years London's best known artists' model...
...bring Negro Wilbur Stewart back from an Easton hospital. Hearing that a hearse had gone for him, the sick man's family arranged a funeral. The hearse drove up and out stepped Stewart, clad in a white hospital gown. Negroes dived out a second-story window, through a screen door. By dusk only a handful of the mourners had ventured back...