Evening star., 1937-04-03
WAR AS GRAVE OF FREEDOM
Conspicuous Among Magazine Features Is Study of Europe by
Hungarian Quarterly, Which Looks Frankly Divided
| Forces-Newsree Development.

passed in the last term, Of careful
drafting OF new projects Not the
least important of these plans Is
that for governmental reorganization.
'"' If President Roosevelt achieves
this reform, he will have written his
name large in American history"
And then the Round Table writer
informs his readers that the most
attractive" possible successor to Mr..
Roosevelt Is the thoughtful, philoe-
optical, religious, sturdy Secretary Of
Agriculture.
THE leading article in Scribner'S for
April Is rather q thought -provok-
ing piece. 1t Is called THE News
reels" and 1t considers those Aims
which are devoted to showing actual
events. Its author is Thomas Sugrue
1t offers An interesting contrast be-
tween the American viewpoint toward
news pictures and the European.
This generation" 1t says, meaning
the present generation in the United
States, which has grown up with
automobiles, radios and airplanes, has
also grown up with newsreels. This
generation, which Is accustomed to
travel overland at sixty miles an hour
and through the air at two hundred
miles an hour, and which accepts as
commonplace the voice of man
speaking to it from a distance Of a
thousand miles, has not considered as
remarkable the fact that it can see
with its own eyes, while sitting in its
neighborhood theater, events that
transpired in the far places Of the
world only few days before. This
practical clairvoyance in time and
space, with which mystics have wres-
tied for thousands of years, is not
considered 4 phenomenon by Ameri-
cans.
Foreigners think differently. In
London there are twenty neWsreel
theaters-cinema houses devoted ex-
clusively to the exhibition Of pictorial
news. In Paris there are ten, and every
small European city has at least one.
In the whole of the United States
there are six: Three in New York, one
IN Newark. one in Philadelphia and
one at North Station in Boston. The
best customers of these hal dozen
pioneers are foreigners, especially Jap
anese and Chinese. The Oriental
thrills when far place or a great
man in brought before him.
The American is apathetic
History either bores or frightens
him.
Washingtonians, Of course, will know
that there are now seven newSreel
theaters in the land since the new one
has opened ir the Nations Capital A
visit to discover the proportion Of ma
tive to foreign spectators might be
interesting.
A CCOMPANYING Mr.. Sugrue's ar
- ticle. which gives a highly inter-
esting history Of the growth of news
reel technique, there are four pages
Of pictures, one from each OF the
great newsreel distributors j Fox
Movietone, News Of the Day, Para
mount and Pathe. Each page contains
what the company in question con-
Sloers us SIX best ShotS. Among them
are views of Edward and Mrs. Simp-
son at Cannes" the assassination Of
King Alexander at Marseilles, the first
news picture taken OF Pope Benedict,
Lindbergh coming up Broadway in
his triumphal parade after his flight
to Paris, former King Edward and
Mr.. and Mrs. Simpson peering from a
window in st. James, the Nazi book
burning, the sinking OF an Austrian
cruiser during the World War and a
very dramatic shot Of a blimp Just
coming up to the mooring mast
atop the Empire State Building This
last was the reviewers favorite But
they are "a really remarkable shots.
all in all. A great deal has gone into
the production Of any of them.