Universal Weekly (1917-1934)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ■15 WITH THE NEWS WEEKLIES BILL GANZ SCORES AGAIN <<gILL" GANZ, the cameraman of the Animated Weekly and Current Events, has had another adventure. You remember it was he who went so cheerfully under fire at the time of the munitions explosion at Haskell, New Jersey, and took the best night photographs which were secured, though shells were falling all around his camera. Well, he's been at it again, and this time in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. They were receiving the Italian Commission there, you know, and of course the cameramen of the different Weeklies gathered like flies around a honey-pot. One in particular had aroused the ire of the redoubtable Bill on another occasion. "He put one over on me once at Columbia," says Bill, "and I made up my mind that here was my chance to get even." Even it is, and a bit to spare, for Bill came home with some absolutely exclusive pictures, and this is the way he did it. "They were going to present a medal to some Italian whose son had been killed in the war," he says, "and there were about 25,000 people at the Columbus, or Colombo, Monument — I don't know which it is — to see them. Marconi was there and all the big guns, and the people were just crazy to see them. They made a circle around the monument and ringed it with mounted police, and I set up my camera in the cleared space in the middle." "How did you get permission to go in there?" I asked. "Oh! I didn't have no permission," said Bill quite cheerfully, "I just went in on my nerve Well, nobody paid any attention to the police or the roped-off space when the Italian bigwigs arrived. They surged in and there was the greatest mob you ever saw. They shoved me all over the place and nearly busted my camera, and I grabbed it and tried to force my way across to the cars of the Commissioners on the other side. I nearly spiked a lot of people with the tripod, and it was certainly a great mix-up for a while. I managed to get into Marconi's car, and I stood up with my feet on the cushions where he had been sitting, and started to take pictures of the jam. They couldn't present no medal, or have no speeches, or anything, and the police got mad and began to club a way through for the big Italians, and there were a lot of people lying around hurt — and it was one grand time generally. All the time I was grinding pictures, and when Marconi finally got back to his car, I refused to get out, so he had to find another. I got a fine close-up of him, and got even there with my cameraman friend, because he was boasting that he had got a fine closeup at the monument, and that I had nothing, and my picture is just as good as his. "Well, I wanted to get rid of the other guys, so I pretended that I hadn't got nothing, and said that I was disgusted and that I was going over to the station and go home. But of course I really hung around for the doings next day. One of the still photographers told me that the others had all gone back to New York, so I knew this was my chance to get even for good. They had "a big time all prepared at Independence Hall for the next day, and I stayed over and was the only cameraman present and got fine pictures of them presenting the medal and the reception and everything. One of the cops asked me if I wouldn't like the statue in Independence Square moved out of the way for me so I could get a beter view — so I suppose I must have acted as if I about owned things around there. I telephoned over to New York that I had pictures of the two events, but I didn't think they were much. And when Jack Cohn saw them he said they were simply great — so that shows you never can tell. Anyway, I got even with my camera friend. It reminded me of the story of the green reporter who was sent out to get the story of a wedding. When he got back they said, 'Well, where is the story of that wedding?' He said, 'There ain't no story — the bride shot herself.' That's what it reminded me of," said Bill. CURRENT EVENTS No. 7. Uncle Sam Welcom,es Russian Commission.—Washington, D. C. Sub-Title. — Secretary Lansing greets Boris BakhmetefF, Head of the Commission. World Famous Spots Thronged as Season for Bathing Opens. — Atlantic City, N. J. Sub-Title. — Annual Bathing Girl Parade. — Venice, Cat. Sub-Title. — Priscilla Dean, Universal Film Star, in prize winning suit. Washington Arch at Valley Forge Nation's Gift to Pennsylvania. — Valley Forge, Pa. Class Day Exercises Find Many Graduates in Uncle Sam's Service. — Many Harvard students take day off from camps to fight confetti battle in great stadium. — Cambridge, Mass. Sub-Title. — Yale College, New Haven, Conn. — Notables gather for Graduation Exercises. Nation Opens Heart to Italy's Sons of Visiting Commission. Sub-Title. — No Greater Demonstration Ever Given Foreign Visitors. — Pittsburgh, Pa. Sub-Title. — Where enthusiastic throngs swept past police barriers and overwhelmed Commission with greetings. — Philadelphia, Pa. Sub-Title. — Metropolis pauses to honor great men.— New York City. Northwestern Rose Carnival a Great Patriotic Spectacle. — Portland, Ore. UNIVERSAL ANIMATED WEEKLY No. 78. Pennsylvania Answers France's Call. — Military parade of men who have enlisted bids you who haven't done so to get into uniforms. — Pittsburgh, Pa. Canadian Kilties Recruit in Maine. — 236th Canadian Battalion in picturesque uniforms thrills crowds and causes many to enlist. — Bangor, Me. Well, it Looks Like the Old Mule is "Done For." — Line drive tractor obeys more quickly than trained farm stock. — Mihvaukee, Wis. A Close-Up of a Great Man. — Portrait study of Lord Northcliffe, famous English journalist, head of British War Mission in America. — New York City. Some Boy! — Eighteen year old R. E. Madsen, world's longest "Edition," at 7 feet 10% inches, is still growing. — Sapulpa, Oklcc. Italian Mission Honors Garibaldi. — In stadium of City College throngs honor famous visitors. — New York City. "Our Aerial Supremacy to Decide World TT'ar." — Howard E. Coffin, Government industrial expert says we can — and will — build tens of thousand aeros in a year. — Washington, D. C. Sub-Title.— Howard E. Coffin, at left. Sub-Title. — Society's Sons to Serve Aviators, Harvard boys, class of 1915, from famous American families, prove that they are made of the proper stuff. — Aviation Camp, Mineola, L. I. Sub-Title. — Back row, left to right, Charlemagne Tower's son, Roderick; J. R. Richards and J. H. Baker. Sub-Title. — Front row, left to right, Teddy's son, Quentin; H. B. Turner and T. J. D. Fuller, Jr. Sub-Title.— "A chip off the old block" — Quentin Roosevelt. Sub-Title. — Vnit No. 3. Aerial Coast Patrol, ready for France. — Mastic, L. I. Sub-Title. — E. K. Jaquith, natural birdman, never uses goggles nor headgear.