Gossip Reel

For their best shots, newsreels are dependent upon accidentally suitable events, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Otherwise they are too often forced to use cliches like battleship launchings, cherry-blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories-- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with or married to Rudy Vallee; three Broadway playboys playing cards in a penthouse; the man who makes Mayor James J. Walker's shoes, and Mayor Walker in jolly mood, strumming one of his own tunes on a piano. In effect much like the chipper colyum of Broadway gossip which Louis Sobol writes for the New York Evening Journal, the Sobol newsreel seems ingenious and potentially popular, depending almost entirely on the intimacy of the revelations made. Observers wondered where Sobol had procured his material. He had borrowed old shots of Thaw and Nesbit from old newsreel libraries, had new ones made to order. Guy Loomis, an oil stock promoter who found that his land really contained an oil well; William ("Billy") Mishkin, who expects to inherit a fortune in a few years; and a Manhattan sport named John Walker, were easily persuaded to be revealed as Metropolitan spendthrifts. Mayor Walker was not at all averse to posing at the piano as a postlude to the portrait of his cobbler. Other items in the first instalment of the Sobol newsreel were: a survey of the careers open to Follies girls, with three examples; a shot of the interior of a speakeasy, deleted by censors after one showing.

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