Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07
Modern Romantic Newsmen

taken in the blazing streets. Guard
ing his great scoop with his own per
son, he rushed in plane to Paris.
There the picture was prepared with
utmost speed for shipment on fast
liner already leaving the dock several
hundred miles from Paris. Another
plane was started. 1t sped after the
departing ship. Three hours after the
vessel had left her berth the plane
dipped low over her deck, dropped the
film aboard, with instructions to ex-
pedite it to headquarters. and returned
to Paris.
While smoke still rose from the
ruins of Smyrna, 5000 miles away,
the pictures Of its destruction were
being shown on Broadway. Mean
while, at Cohens direction. s. r.
SOHO had rushed from Paris and re-
corded the terrifying scene which de-
veloped at Smyrna after ErCole's de-
parture.
Bixio Alberini of Rome numbers
among his adventures the climbing Of
Mount Vesuvius while ii was In erup-
ton while every one else was getting
out Of the way as fast as possible An
airplafie used in the war carried him
and his camera over the smoking
crater. He also made shots from
points of vantage that were anything
UuC COfIIOTLdDl0 ana IdE from sale.
When Hugo Stindt, Berlin bureau
manager. heard that Clarence Cham
berlin seemed quite likely to make
successful landing in Germany, he put
his camera in an airplane at Tempel-
hofer Field and waited for further
word from the intrepid American. He
had some time to wait, but finally he
learned that Chamberlin and Levine
had ended their hop with a forced
landing at Kottbus. A roar Of the
motor and Stindt was OFF In his big
Junker to get the picture. He was the
first man on the job, and he got eX-
elusive pictures before the other cam
eramen arrived of the wrecked plane
and of Chamberlin and Levine lust
after the landing.
Joe Rucker, who makes his head.
quarters at San Francisco for Para
mount News, has just returned from
China, where he photographed the ac-
tivities of the Cantonese armies and
where he obtained pictures of the ad-
vance and attack upon Hankow
Far East, and therefore was brought
back and relieved by another staff
man. E. Carl Wallen.~
Andre Glattli, Paris bureau manager.
got a cable one day from Cohen sug.
costing that he look into the Riffian
war. Glattli understood that no cam
eramen were desired at the front in
Morocco. The French government
had made this clear on several occa-
sions. However. he hired a plane to
fly him to Fee, and when he got there
was promptly arrested by the French
military authorities.
Then came the question Of what to
do with him. 1t finally was decided
that it would be easier to have him
| make the pictures than to keep him in
captivity. He got the pictures, and
The got the first and only pictures made
during the French unpleasantness
with the Riffs.
''The motion picture camera paints
the drama Of moving life with the
broad brush of a realism within the
understanding Of every one" says Mr..
Cohen. 'The news reel in the IL
years Of its existence had earned rec
ognition as a vital institution. playing
an important role in news communica-
ton and in the life of the Nation.
Like the great news syndicates,
the Associated Press, the United Press
and the International News, Of whose
tremendous service the public Is fully
aware the Paramount News is world
wide in scope, reaching out for the
facts Of life in every part of the
earth"