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Like Actor Cagney's previous impersonations, this one has a quality of effortless authenticity. It is not exactly acting? no one could be taught to say "bhointt up" as Cagney says it without being raised in sight of Brooklyn Bridge?but it is funny. Warner Brothers may have underpaid Actor Cagney but they have always given him good dialog. His comment after listening to a piano recital: "That guy has a great left 'hand." After bickering for two months (TIME, May 9) about his $1.600 weekly salary which he considered outrageously low, Cinemactor Cagney was last fortnight said to have...
...record. Next day he came to the 18th with a chance for a 68. He changed clubs for his second shot, pressed, took a five for a 69 His two-round total was a low record and he was three strokes ahead of the field. After shooting another smooth, effortless 70 he said: "Anyhow, that's far better than my usual 78 for the third round of a championship...
...then a silent cinema, Service for Ladies with Adolphe Menjou in 1927. Amusing in both versions, its comedy is steadily improving with repetition. Hungarian Director Alexander Korda directed this talking version in England for Paramount, with U. S. money, English actors, cameramen, staff.* Leslie Howard does his usual discreet, effortless, alert job, delivering the bright lines of the dialog as though he habitually talked that way. George Grossmith as a tall, rheumatic, liverish, twinkling ramrod King, is a sly parody of Sweden's Gustaf...
...ahead coming into the last turn when Williams, who had started badly, began to catch up, running with his legs wide apart, his face twisted into an expression of effort and fatigue. Eastman did not seem to be tired but he had not learned how to accelerate his effortless pace into the burst of speed a middle distance runner often needs for the finish. Williams was three steps in front at the tape. Third man was an obscure Southern Californian, Art Woessner, whom no one had expected to place. In the half-mile, however, Coach Templeton's strategy of entering...
...Presumably due to Depression, only half the seats were sold in the observation train. Critics who doubted the ability of the championship Cornell crew were embarrassed by the race at Derby. Cornell, in the unlucky west lane, did not bother to use a racing start, moved into an effortless paddle less than a length behind Yale & Princeton. Yale was rowing about 36 to Cornell's 28 or 29-an almost insultingly slow beat for a two-mile race. Princeton kept up a fatiguing high beat for the first mile and had begun to tire when Jimmy Burke, the Cornell...