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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good shots in The Battle's battle: white uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong; one gun turret after another reporting "Ready"; a lone survivor in one gun turret groping to the telephone for instructions; sailors, protected by masks and helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over...
...DeMille technique is as peculiar as his ideology. He is almost the only director in Hollywood who still uses a megaphone. Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded...
...CHINESE TESTAMENT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TAN SHIH-HUA AS TOLD TO S. TRETIAKOV-Simon & Schuster ($3). Russian-ghosted autobiography of a Chinese intellectual, unsensational, indigenous. THE METHOD OF FREEDOM-Walter Lippmann-Macmillan ($1.50). Lectures delivered at Harvard last month by a noted public-pulse-finder. DREAM AND ACTION-Leonard Bacon- Harper ($2). Narrative poem based on the life of the late great Poet-to-end-Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic...
Lost--At or near Harvard Square, lady's silver watch and fob. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving same at a Garden street, Cambridge...
...stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin of "Ginger" Boyle...