A Dispatch from Reuters (Warner Bros.) (1940)

(REUTERS—FIRST LEAD Edw. G. Robinson Stars In ‘A Dispatch From Reuter’s’ New Film Opens at Strand Friday The new film season at the Strand Theatre, which has gotten off to such a splendid start with pictures such as “Knute Rockne — All American” and “City For Conquest,” continues with the showing of “A Dispatch From Reuter’s,” starring Edward G. Robinson. The new Warner Bros. picture is scheduled to open on Friday and will probably be held for an extended run. Telling the thrilling life story of Julius Reuter, founder and originator of the first worldwide news gathering and news disseminating system, “A Dispatch From Reuter’s” is one of the most important Hollywood offerings of the year. Warner Bros. have given it a lavish production befitting its magnitude of scope. Robinson, whose portrayal in “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet”? won him nationwide acclaim, is cast as Reuter, and the roster of supporting players include such notables as Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love and James Stephenson. William Dieterle, who directed “Dr, Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet,” as well as such other film masterpieces as “Zola” and “Pasteur,” directed “A Dispatch From Reuter’s.” The story begins back in the early nineteenth century in Germany, where a young lad named Reuter is working in a bank as a messenger boy. Aware of the delay and uncertainty of the mails and market reports from the larger European centers, he dreams of finding some way to expedite such services. DISPATCHES... Le (REUTERS—LEAD FOLLOW-UP His first venture in this direction is a carrier pigeon post for carrying messages between Aix-La-Chappelle and Verviers. It is during this venture that he meets and marries Ida Magnus (played by Edna Best.) But meanwhile the communications field is being revolutionized by the telegraph, and Reuter’s winged messengers are no longer needed. Now is the time to launch his scheme for a largeseale news service. He goes to Paris, but is unsuccessful there. In 1851, he goes to England and becomes a British subject. It is several years later when he gets his big chance. He ties up the English ‘channel cable line, makes arrangements in Paris to have one of Napoleon’s most important speeches relayed word for word by telegraph, while it is being delivered. He furnishes spot copies to all London newspapers, and his success is made. “According to a Reuter’s dispatch” began to be the familiar phrase in newspapers that it still is today. But all was not smooth sailing for Reuter thereafter. Like all men who pioneer in a new field, he has to face ridicule and public persecution, before he really convinces the world of the rightness of his course. Out of these true to life events, a thrilling, human story has been woven, combining all the basic ingredients of a great man’s life—struggle, defeat and eventual triumph—into a truly fine film. Milton Krims wrote the screen play from a story by Valentine Williams and Wolfgang Wilhelm. Max Steiner wrote the musical score. Next Friday the Strand Theatre will bring to the screen a new kind of film thrill when the Edward Robinson starring picture, “A Dispatch From Reuter’s,” makes its debut. Reuter’s name has been seen on a thousand front pages yet nobody knows his story. Now, the most talked about man in history tells his own incredible tale. The role of Julius Reuter, the man who made the greatest news beats of all time, is played by Robinson, in what is claimed to be the best performance in his admirable career. Edna Best is cast in the role of his wife, who proves to be not only the perfect wife but also his wisest advisor when she shows him the true value of news in its relationship to right and wrong. Eddie Albert plays the part of his lifelong friend who never loses faith in Reuter’s ideas. When Reuter was a young boy in Germany he was very much impressed by a courier from India who brought to his little town the news of the Far East. From that time on he is obsessed with the desire to find some way to dispatch news and market reports rapidly throughout the world. Together with his friend, Max, he opens a news agency in Brussels and uses carrier pigeons to take the news to cities and villages that lacked the telegraph. It was hard going for years, with many hardships and setbacks. As did all men who possessed new ideas, he met much skepticism. But as the services of Reuter’s news agency became more and more significant —a pigeon carrying a scrap of paper that sealed the fate of an Mat 101—15c Edw. G. Robinson Mat 102—15c Director William Dieterle 2 col. mat, can be separated for individual one cols—Mat 216—30c ROBINSON AS REUTER—(Left) Edward G. Robinson whose many brilliant screen portrayals have stamped him as one of the great character actors. (Right) As Julius Reuter, founder of the first great 's,"" coming to the Strand Friday. telegraphic news service, in "A Dispatch From Reuter's, ‘Dispatch From Reuter’s’ At Strand on Friday If the knack for nosing out a good story from a series of sporadic and apparently unrelated events is the badge of a good newspaperman, then the Hollywoods are full of writers who would make swell reporters. “A Dispatch From Reuter’s” opening at the Strand Theatre on Friday, anticipated by three months the mysterious death of a Reuter’s correspondent, recently, in Japan. Last year, the same studio produced “Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” which foreshadowed the Fifth Column investigations, in this country, by almost a year. Reuter Film Makes 1940’s Most Exciting Screen News To Show at Strand Starting Friday empire—a ship sights a rocket’s glare and frees a nation—he fast became known as the greatest reporter in history and the most intelligent man in Europe. The brilliant array of fine performers that make up the supporting cast are; Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love and James Stephenson. “A Dispatch From Reuter’s,” produced by Warner Bros., was directed by William Dieterle and written by Milton Krims from a story by Valentine Williams and Wolfgang Wilhelm. If you want to see a picture as exciting as your latest news bulletin we advise you to lose no time in heading for the Strand. (REUTER’S—-ADVANCE Edw. G. Robinson Plays News Service Founder Edward G. Robinson, Hollywood’s most versatile actor if his agile leaps from Dr. Paul Ehrlichs to sinister gangsters to broad comedy portrayals are duly considered, presents another first in his newest Warner Bros. film, “A Dispatch From Reuter’s” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. As Julius Reuter, father of the system of modern world news coverage, he will wear red hair for the first time in his long career. In preparing for the character Robinson spent an agegregate of many days in the make up chair during the months the picture was in production. Mat 105—15c Edna Best Mat 106—15c Eddie Albert THE NAME IS PRONOUNCED “ROY-TERS” The name of Julius Reuter, founder of the world’s first great telegraphic news service, has appeared on the front pages of the world’s newspapers more often than that of any other man who ever lived. The phrase: “According to a dispatch from Reuter’s” is familiar to everyone who reads the papers. But curiously enough, during Reuter’s own lifetime, he had the greatest difficulty getting people to pronounce it correctly. This fact is amusingly brought out in the new Warner Bros. film, “A Dispatch From Reuter’s” with Edward G. Robinson in the role of Reuter. “Gentlemen,” he pleads, to those who address him as ‘Rooter,’ “the name is pronounced Royter.” Edw. G. Robinson Stars In Film Coming to Strand Following up his role in “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet’ with another which is certain to add to the prestige he won for himself in that picture, Edward G. Robinson’s newest starring role is in “A Dispatch From Reuter’s,” which begins a local engagement on Friday at the Strand Theatre. In it, he portrays Julius Reuter, founder of the first great news service with world-wide coverage. William Dieterle directed the film from a screen play by Milton Krims, from a story which was written by Valentine Williams and Wolfgang Wilhelm. )