A wholesale slaughter of Concord’s most prominent citizens is expected to take place at an early date when the George R. Raymond Company turns loose its big guns and perpetrates the massacre, shooting the innocent victims and leaving them to have their physiognomies exposed to the public gaze at the Pastime Theatre every day and night for the period of two weeks.
The shooting, according to George R. Raymond, is to occur on the main thoroughfares of Concord between sunrise and sunset in the next few days. The weapon in this case is to be a motion picture camera and the only suffering incurred by those “shot” will e that they will have to see themselves as others see them.
Mr. Raymond, accompanied by two assistants, Stephen E. Connor and R.B. Bough, has arrived in Concord to take movie snap shots of prominent men for the Pastime’s Who’s Who. He will take two views of these persons, the first time taking a back view and show them in the act of turning around, the second is to show a front view of the same person with his family or with his business employees.
The first view will be shown for one week at the Pastime and every one in the theatre will be given a slip of paper on which to write guesses as to the name of the man whose back was flashed on the screen. Prizes will be given for the one who gets most names correct. The front views will be given during the following week.
In addition to these pictures, Mr. Raymond will make pictures of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, which after a showing will be donated to the clubs.
Mr. Raymond has been, he says, in every state in the Union except two during the past five years. He was in Concord once before and made pictures of people here at that time. He began his career traveling through this section with a stock company. Ben Turpin, the famous comedian, was in the company as a stage hand and pulled down the sum of $14 each week.
From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, April 7, 1925
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