The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

AT ALL STORES ■fa Shinola White Cleaner dries quickly. After drying, the shoe should be rubbed or brushed. Shinola cleans and whitens; removes all stains and will not discolor shoes. News-Snapping the Stars {Continued from page 16) The boys deployed down the bay en masse, grimly determined to photograph the elusive star. Clambering aboard ship from the cutter which carried them to Quarantine, the photographers rushed immediately to her cabin only to discover, that Hartford's first citizen had disappeared, and searching seemed futile. Suddenly, while a council of war was in progress, a grinning photographer was observed trailing behind the supposedly elusive star. Without quarrel or equivocation, Hepburn posed for the astonished news photographers, who mechanically went through their routines. Later, they discovered the reason for the star's willingness. "When I couldn't find her," revealed the photographer who had followed Miss Hepburn on deck, "I figured she must be hiding out in somebody else's cabin, so I picked out Ernest Hemingway, the writer, and hung about the companionway near his door. Sure enough, out came Hepburn and from my hiding place, I let go with the flash bulb. Pow! She jumped into the air. "Oh, don't use that picture, please," she said. "No lady," I said, "not if you'll come up and pose for the rest of the boys." And Katy did. CHIPBOARD is an ideal place for ^ thrills. Sometimes it is even fraught with sorrow. Usually, eight cameramen will be covering the boats, the trains, or the airports, depending upon the importance of the arriving celebrity. Connie Bennett was a young lady who always managed to bring the boys out in full and, on one occasion, almost managed to give one of them a "ducking." The photographers decided upon an "angle" shot, one that would show them, as well as Connie, standing against the gunwhale of the ship. To obtain this angle, one lens man was delegated to stand on the rail, his camera poised high in outstretched arms and "shoot." Everything would have been perfect except for a playful breeze that whipped against the photographer's legs, causing him to lose his balance. As he teetered perilously on the rail, one of the ship's officers, who had been watching the proceedings, grabbed him and balanced him back to safety. After the picture had been taken, he promptly forgot the incident. Maurice Chevalier is one of the photographer's pet subjects. The personable French star often plies his press guests with delicacies calculated to tickle the palates of a king. Maurice owned two small turtles whose backs were studded with tiny diamonds. These turtles were great favorites with the news photographers, who spent many moments playing with them, sometimes getting them to race and laying wagers on the outcome. Fearlessness is apparently necessary in a news photographer's make-up. It is probably two-thirds of whatever character he happens to possess. When he is denied a picture, he tries to get it regardless of the outcome. Miriam Hopkins discovered this. The blond charmer arrived at the world premiere of a motion picture, stepped from her limousine and with a curt "no" to the newsmen's request to pose, sped into the theater and was ushered immediately into her seat just as the auditorium was darkened and the picture flashed onto the screen. The picture had been on scarcely So He SAYSBut He's THINKING "WHY does she use thaP horrid shade of Nail Polish that clashes with her complexion?" 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Like that slogan on the facade of New York's post-office which states that "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," the newspaper photographer's "get that picture" spurs them onward, and helps them through many difficult spots, such as the one confronting them when Frank Buck and Helen Twelvetrees attended a pet show. This assignment wasn't what one would term difficult, but it did call for a great deal of ingenuity. Photographers take great pride in their ingenuity and do not like to take poses which appear the same. Even when they attend their familiar routine of "shooting" a female' star with her legs crossed, they try to see that the angle is different. Casting about for a new idea around which to photograph the big game hunter and Miss Twelvetrees, the boys decided to construct a Hollywood set that would look as though it actually had been made on the "lot." Partitioning off an ante-room, the newsmen set up flood lights, scouted up a newsreel camera and prepared to do their stuff. After a few shots of Buck and Helen had been taken, some inspired soul suggested that the intrepid "bring 'em back alive man" be photographed with a chimpanzee, an idea which met with instantaneous approval from all parties concerned. Getting the "chimp" was an easy matter and he was brought to the set and placed alongside Buck. Immediately, the "chimp" began wailing. Nothing appeased the creature until Buck moved from its side. Immediately, the noise ceased. Queried later on this, the man who tamed the jungle smiled. "He's afraid of me," he said. And, believe it or not, Mr. Ripley, that's exactly what was wrong. "C^VERY profession has some type of -*-J person who becomes a nuisance to them. The "lens louse" is the news photographer's pet hate. A "lens louse" is a person who insists on having his or her picture taken while a news photographer is working. The "louse" may be someone, a merchant from Tuscaloosa or the president of the Ladies' Aid in Punxatawney, or anyone who has struck up an acquaintance with a celebrity while on shipboard or on a train, and tries to get into the picture. How would you like it, if your job called for you to obtain pictures of Jean Harlow or Mae West or Clark Gable and while you were trying to perform your task without holding the celebrity in front of the camera too long, someone insisted you take his picture too? That's what a news photographer usually has to contend with. Naturally, a remedy had to be found and, no doubt you'll agree it's a corker. When a "lens louse" now approaches the photographer, the newsman willingly agrees to pose the persistent person if he'll wait until the job in hand is done. Nine times out of ten, the "lens louse" will agree. True to his word, the photographer later poses the "lens louse," goes through I all the motions of taking the picture, 54 The Neiv Movie Magazine, July, 1935