Girl Reporter With Candid Camera

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 31, 13 January 1939, Page 17

Girl Reporter With Candid Camera

mae posed: " Universal. Directed Harold Schuster. Starring Glenda Otto Kruger. Release date indefinite.] 66 XPOSED"’ represents the first time (to my knowledge at any rate) that pictorial. journalism has been romantically treated and brought to the screen. By pictorial journalism I mean the sort of news purveyed per medium of pictures in -periodicals of the "Life," "Pic," "Look," "Foto" and (in Australia and New Zealand) "Pix" class. In America, thanks to. the vogue started by the sensationally successful "Life," dozens of | newspicture papers sprang on to. the newsstands literally overnight. Some expired soon after | drawing their first breath, some lingered on, hovering, as. it were, between "Life" and death; some have prospered exceedingly. These periodicals have waged a desperate war among themselves.. Circulation has come only to the.

nist enterprising, to the paper which could most consistently seoop its competitors with some — sensational series of pictures. © it’s A Girl "MXPOSED" deals with a hectic | chapter in the life of- the. star — reporter on a newspicture maga- | gine. This star reporter-is a woman, and a comely young woman at that. TIT, wonld like to challenge this fact on the grounds of improbability, but Universal have a notabie precedent, One of the star photographers for "Life" is a woman, Margaret Bourke White, whose scenes of life among humble communities in Southern States have won her wide recognition. But to return to our muttons. This ‘star reporter, who is none other than blonde Glenda Farrell, stumbles by accident on a remarkable picture.