Paramount International News (1935)

Page 4 ^ammmntJntemationalQlews AS BREATHLESS AS "THE CRUSADES" AS EXCITING AS A FIRST KISS "THE HONOR OF THE LEGION” By P. I. Corp CHAPTER HI “Get Nathan At Any Cost!” For clays and weeks and months selfish aims, individual aspirations, the glittering mantle of triumph and glorv had kept them all as divided factors ; it had been a case of each-for-each and allfor-each, even unto the ends of time and to the ends of the earth. But now a common purpose drew them all together more unerringly than a mighty magnet coagulates a slather of steel splinters into one knotted mass. It was a realization of a common peril they all faced, the peril of having Nathan emerge the winner. “Get Nathan!” became a battle-'*^ cry. Across lands, across borders, sweeping over continents went this cry, as ei’rie, poignant and fai‘reaching as the appeal of the man who united the nations of the world for The Crusades. But now, instead of .John li. .Saladin foi' the common enemy, there faced them the spectacle of .John li. Nathan, an army of gallant Gauchos his cohorts instead of Saladin’s Saracens. Another major difference was the plan of camjiaign. It began one evening in mid-October in a dark, mysterious room which might have been almost anywhere in Europe, and probably was. In it were gathered the International Committee of the Other Thirteen, grim of face, two of them unshaven, all of them looking as though they hadn’t slept since last night. “Let’s not mince words,” said the envoy from the North. “Did you ever try it?” said the delegate from England. It was a true case of liritish logic, and in a world so filled with metaphors ami illogical phrases, it was as breathless as a .sirocco from the south. “Gentlemen, these fencing pree logvies are unnecessary. Words aren’t going to get Nathan.” “Nor fish-hooks either,” a<lded another delegate who recalled ,I.Ii. N.’s piscatorial fame. For the next five minutes the meeting was (piite unruly. The mention of fish-hooks appeared to have done something to the delegates, for they flung barbed jokes to and fro in the i-ather small room, and seemed to spend more time than was necessary over lighting their cigars, stogies and meerschaum pipes. Then they definitely got dow n to business. “Nathan must he put out of the contest, no matter what it costs us.” The speaker was one of the two unshaven delegates, and for that and other reasons must i‘emain anonymous. “W ould you suggest a time homh?” .said the only other unshaven gent. “I would not,” si)oke Tip one of the thirteen who had until now maintaine<l a discreet hut observing silence. “.\nd for the simple reason that I calculate Nathan to he too busy on the Contest to take time off to open the package, let alone taking time off to he blown to fragments.” “I say, old chap, don’t be so gory!” The speaker’s English indicated very clearly that he was not English. “After all,” chimed in another speaker, “you’ve got to remember that this is only an act in a play, and that Nathan has got to jiop up in another i>art next year.” “What you mean, then,” sibilantly hissed one of the earlier speakei’s, “is that we’ve got to giv^e him something akin to the American expression of a ‘Mickey hlnn.’ Is that what you mean?” ’‘I mean,” growled the bloodiest of all the Thirteen, “that we have to save our faces in such a way that Nathan can be among the ap I I John B. Nathan implacably faces the zuorld as he learns over the Transatlantic telephone of the dire plot being made against him. “I’ll stick by my results,” is his retort to plotters. plauders when one of us is crowned the winner.” Nothing more fatal could have been said at that moment. Bedlam bi-oke loose. Twelve raucous throat.s bellowed in imison the one phrase, “You mean me!” And so they raged and stonned and shook hairy fists under snorting noses, and the hiiilding trembled as though an eai’thquake had come upon the land. Minute after minute it went on. But Nathan had been no fool. If the Committee of the Other Thirteen could have their espionage systems scattered throughout the world, so could he. Even as the Committeemen wrangietl among themselves the left eye of a painting on the wall blinked a moment to see if the movement wei'e observed by the wranglers. It was not, so the ownei of that eye, and the other one, descended from his precarious pei'ch, replaced the original eyes of the jiainting. NEW DEVELOPMENT SHOULD GIV’E GREATEK INTERNATIONAL APPEAL TO SHORTS Announcement that he has perfected a practical third dimension process for screen cartoons as a result of experiments extending over a period of years, is made by Max Fleischer, producer of “Popeye the Sailor,” ‘‘Betty Boop,” and other film caricatures. “I have just completed a series of experiments with some new attachments to our equipment which will not only increase depth effects in our pictures by 75%, but will have the effect of our characters operating well within the scene instead of in the foreground as heretofore,” Fleischer reported to Paramount. He added : ‘‘A preliminary test has proved the new development to be practical, and I am rushing our machinists to the utmost in an effort to apply the new departure to ‘Sinbad,’ the two-reel color picture now in preparation.” Mr. Fleischer expects within a few weeks to receive notification from Washington that patents to his third dimension equipment have been granted. “LA PARAMOUNT FRANCAISE” REAPPEARS After a summer sojourn, the scintillating house oigan of the Ereiicli Division has made a very welcome reappearance on our desk. We have before us the combined issue of August-September-Octoher, with its scads of space devoted to “The Cru.sades,” and to the great crusade for ascendancy that the French Division pi-omises for the remainder of this year and “all of next.” and hastily grabbed a telephone. “Transatlantic oiterator,” he called softly. The opei-ator’s voice answered him briskly. “I want to talk to Buenos Aires — U.T. 47 — Cuyo 3061.” | In less than a minute the connection w'as made. \ “El Senor Nathan?” | “Si. But Pedro, you had better speak in English.” And he did. To cut a long stoiy down to a reasonable time for a Transatlantic telephone conversation (which Pedro paid for out of his own iiocket, by the xvay), the ; Gaucho Leader learned in no uncei tain terms that the rest of the woi'ld was laijdng for him, and that their vengeance was going to be dire — and everything. “Let them do their darndest!” he exclaimed as he hung up the receiver. “Names and threats may ' be good bets — but I’ll put my faith 1 in topping quota.” j (There will be a fourth installment j next month). | TO/IELADAS DE EXITO Cparanwud RAPOPORT, AD. MAN Jasper D. Rapoport, Paramount’s manager in Cuba, never loses an opportunity to get a good Paramount message across. Reproduced herewith is his advertisement in the October issue of Cinegrafico, local Cuban movie magazine. You will see from this how fond they are in Havana of Pop-eye the Sailor. NEWSPILlVnNG THE EVENTS IN ETHIOPIA A MA,JOR JOB Insuring an airplane in Ethiopia today is almost as costly as the price of the plane itself. And more — according to A. J. Richard, editor of Paramount News which has an army of cameramen stationed in Ethiopia — the ‘‘jjolicy” has to be renewed every five weeks. Translating it to dollars, Richards, who is in possession of a batch of expense vouchers from Ethiopia, estimates that it costs $3,000 to insure a plane valued at $4,000.