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...apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan), who can't be separated...
...seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge in three previous Cup matches, had proved to be a chump with any other partner, and Bobby Riggs & Elwood Cooke (who were good enough to win the Wimbledon Doubles championship this summer) were trounced by Quist & Bromwich in the U. S. Doubles fortnight...
This revolutionary announcement brought many a "Hear! Hear!" from Reptonians (who said a fellow looked a bit of a chump walking over the Derbyshire moors in black-and-stripes), but startled Britain's other public schools. When a reporter for London's Daily Mail visited Eton to break the news, he found Etonians horrified at the suggestion that they change their traditional garb...
...would have yelled: "We wuz robbed." The great spectacle the tennis world had been anticipating for more than a year had been about as exciting as a ladies' Sunday morning doubles match at the club. Budge, playing below his best, had made Vines, the veteran, look like a chump, had trounced...
...recent years, having wrenched the J. from his name, Atkinson-though thoughtful as ever about good plays-has become a Katzenjammer Kid about bad ones. This season he has pulled leg after leg of flop after flop. Of Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of Come Across: "You see him in bed, which is no treat." Of The Devil Takes a Bride: "This is a sordid tale, my mates." Of the author of The Good: "An old Hudson (N. Y.) boy, Mr. Erskin . . . should hesitate about visiting back home." Of Thanks for Tomorrow: "Thanks for tomorrow...