IN ABYSSINIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 10

IN ABYSSINIA

WITH THE CAMERAMEN. Three cameramen of Paramount News’ staff covering lhe Italian-Abys-sinian war, made news themselves this week, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Addis Ababa, two suffering minor injuries in outbreaks, and the third in making a hazardous flight over the Ethiopian war fronts. John Do red, ace of Paramount’s European staff and chief of the war staff, was the first cameraman granted authority by Emperor Haile Welassie to make the daring Hight over the war i zone to make motion pictures. The Associate'! Press correspondent, James A. Mills, reported Bored’s perilous undertaking in his dispatches and told how Dored had been summoned be- ■ fore the Emperor on his return and congratulated the cameraman for his courage. While. Dored was in the air. the antiBritish riots were breaking out m ’ Cairo, Egypt, and it was there that Arthur Menken, another Paramount cameraman, of New York, was struck by blank waddings from Cairo police guns as they fought the rioters. Menken was in* the midst of the fighting and obtained sensational pictures. From llarrar, the strategic centre in north-eastern Ethiopia, came the news that Edward Genock, a third Paramount cameraman, was seriously injured by fierce native warriors who at- ‘ ta , d him while he was filming their ar: .cl with their chief from the interior. The primitive tnoesmen believe :n a superstition Fuat whoever obtains a picture of their images also takes away their soul, and set upon Genock when they saw him at his camera. The native chief succeeded in calling off the enraged warriors in time to save Genock from more critical injuries “Roaming Lady.” Virtually every free-lance player in Hollywood has been engaged by Columbia for the flying scenes in Fay Wray’s picture “Roaming Lady,” in which she is with Ralph Ballamy. Albert Rogell is directing. Incidentally, “Roaming Lady” is Miss Wray's first production since her recent return from England, where she has been making pictures for British and Dominion and Capitol Film companies.