"The camera cannot lie" (continued)

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    I went through THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER & CINEMATOGRAPHER (London)
looking for the "cheese."  No cheese yet.
    This is from 27 August 1930, pg. 194, cols. 1-2:

    _"The Camera Cannot Lie."_
    Exactly thirty-four years ago (August 26th, 1896, to be precise) the
civilised world was shocked by news of a massacre of Armenians in
Constantinople.  It was when describing some photographs of these dead
Armenians that Mr. Gladstone, speaking at Liverpool, coined the oft-quoted
phrase, "The camera cannot lie."  So writes a correspondent who was living in
Constantinople at the time, and who goes on to say that the truthfulness of
the massacre photographs has often been questioned, many critics asserting
that the subjects were "arranged" for political purposes.  Indeed, our
correspondent spoke with a carter at the Porte who claimed to have taken the
same dead bodies from one street to another, and to have piled them in heaps
for the camera-man to photograph.

    Interesting story!
    I'll have to check Historical Newspapers Online for the London Times.  We
have a name and a date.  How could a famous quotation from Gladstone not be
recorded in my reference books?
    For a discussion of a word in the publication's title, see 14 January
1931, pg. 24, cols. 2-3:

    _The Word "Amateur"_
    The English language is now more widely spread over the world than any
other, and in an effort to standardize the pronunciation of broadcast English
the British Broadcasting Corporation has issued a further list of recent
recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Spoken English.  In this
new list the word "amateur" appears, and the experts have decided that the
correct pronunciation is "amaterr" (final syllable to rhyme with fur), and
few will quarrel with the experts, as this is the way it is usually
pronounced.  The word is French from the Latin "amator," and a well-known
French dictionary gives the pronunication as "am-at-ur."  One sometimes hears
the word pronounced "am-at-teur" or even "am-at-chewer," both of which are
incorrect.