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...star in a school production of Walter Kerr's Sing Out Sweet Land. The show was good, his grades improved noticeably, and he decided to become an actor. The decision was also a kind of revelation for young Bobby: "It explained why I was always behaving like a brat...
...assumes that he will kill the Comanches as easily as he kills the ladies. When he reports to Canby's C.O. (Richard Boone) he gets the shock of his young life. The captain, without apparent provocation, chews him out, mocks him for a spoiled Army brat "promoted a good ten years ahead of your time," and vows to "make a soldier out of you or break you," Who put that hornet in the old man's hat? While the lieutenant is wondering, he takes a long slow look at garrison life: at the startled shake...
...story begins, the pretty ragazza is running away from her bandleader boy friend with a highborn brat who promises to make her a movie star. After five days of fun and games, the young nob suddenly gets bored, takes what the Italians call English leave. Furious, the girl pursues him, finds out where he lives, rings his doorbell. Appalled, the playboy tells his 16-year-old brother (Jacques Perrin) to answer the door and get rid of the dame. But the boy is everything big brother is not: innocent, sensitive, idealistic. He is horrified at his brother's subhumanity...
THERE IS A DRAGON IN MY BED (by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Irene Haas; Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is the kind of book that separates the privileged U child from the underprivileged non-U brat. It is bilingual, featuring first-reader French for cosmopolitan moppets. Two tykes, a boy and a girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh...
...young lady is sore, it seems, because she is a French army brat and parental love is at parade rest. Papa is a cavalry colonel, more interested in charges than children, while Mama is a Spanish noblewoman too haughty for tender talk. What daughter knows about affection comes from spying on peasant maids and their trooper lovers on a slumbering military post before World War II. And what she learns of life comes from Daddy's batman, a sporting type named Killer, whose off-duty kicks come from impaling jack-lighted wildlife on the iron spikes attached...