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Seldom has Cecil B. De Mille recaptured so successfully the sweep of panoramic action which was his hallmark in the silent days. Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing...
Fred Perry of England, world's No. 1 amateur tennist, revealed that, as a professional, he would next month play topflight Professional Ellsworth Vines in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
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...confident that I express the opinion of thousands of alert readers and writers who have long been aware of John Dos Passes' excellent work when I send along my congratulations for TIME'S topflight review of The Big Money in the Aug. 10 issue. An able, critical estimate of which TIME'S Books editor may well be proud. AUGUST W. DERLETH...
Sued. Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn; by Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, for Paramount Pictures Corp.; for $5,000,000 damages arising from Goldwyn's "theft" of Paramount's topflight Cinemactor Gary Cooper; in Los Angeles...