ASSASSINATION FILM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 9

ASSASSINATION FILM

RECEPTION IN U.S.A. FRENCH POLICE CRITICISED NEW YORK, Oct, 19. Great excitement marked the arrival tjiis morning of the liner Washington, which was carrying films of the Mar* set lies' assassination. The news picture companies, all of whom were eagoily awaiting the films, had sent special tugs and speedboats to meet the liner. As soon as the Washington was cleared from quarantine representatives of the companies aboard seized the films horn the special locker in .which they travel and made off at top speed 10 miles up the bay to the city, each hoping to be the first to exhibit the pictures at New York theatres. . ' Aboard the same ship were the five ■survivors of the seaplane which raced out yesterday to collect the films and capsized ou landing near the Washington. The first comments on the showing ol the films here are not at all favorable to the French police. The protection afforded King Alexander on a State visit to France impresses the average New Yorker as being inferior to that offered in New York to a returning Channel swimmer. ... , Tlie 70ft. intervals at winch the police 'were strung along the pavement contrasted sharply with the 12ft. interval employed on important occasions here. It was also noted that the police, instead of facing the crowd, were themselves eagerly watchingi the show.