FINE-SET.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 18

FINE-SET.

Completed'^at-'the^cost r of'-- £-20,000 the "Moonbeam" set of: Universal's sumptuous musical' production of "Top of-the Town";-is.today-one.of^the:shoy/ places .. of < Hollywood; surpassing iin size and. splendour -any;' set k previously built on'rthe Universal-lot.

The tender love which exists between two of the hardest characters of the old Western States of America, "Wild Bill" .Hickok, two-fisted exponent of law and order as the newlyopened territory knew it, and. "Calamity ..Jane," a beauty who packed a pair of-six-guns and drove a sixhorse stage.coach over what /then passed' as roads, is the basis of Cecil; B De MiUe's latest screen masterpiece: produced for Paramount, "The Plains-, man." History relates how Hickok played by Gary Cooper, was.retained by the-Government to investigate gunrunning in the West Hickok discovers, who irresponsible for ' the gun-run-, ning after/ General Custer and his. whole cavalry regiment are wiped out by the Indians at Little Big Horn. But the discovery costs him dear. The De : Mille film begins around j 1865, wheii; the Civil War ended and the treck West began? and ends, shortly after the Custer massacre, ".is broadly con- ; ceived in the traditional De Mille manner. A thousand Indians ■ from the Tongue Eiver Reservation were used in the filming, as well .as several troops of-Federal and State cavalry, to give "sweep" to the background. Others in the cast are James-Ellison, as "Buffalo" Bill Cody, Helen Burgess, a newcomer to> the screen, as his wife, Paul Harvey, Victor Carcom, George Hayes, and "Fuzzy" ■ Knight.