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Arriving in a railroad station in Rossmore, Illinois, after a trip to New York to sell a historical book about his famous ancestor, Cooper, as Cas Q. Brown, is met with a big kiss and a case of the sniffles by Anita Louise, his one-and-only-at-the-time. A few quick scenes take care of talks with poppa, profligatish Frank Morgan at his usual best, and preliminary preparations for the wedding. Comes the day of the wedding rehearsal, comes a letter from the Ellen Harris Maternity Hospital suggesting immediate consultations, comes a big headache for Cooper...
...Drury's mother against him, the house goes up in smoke, and Cooper's spur of the moment marriage with Isabel, a Barnard girl, ends on the proverbial rocks. The flashback fades, and Morgan-Cooper banter lights up the scene to dispel the otherwise shady atmosphere of the proceedings. Cas, with a slightly overworked conscience, takes a powder to Chicago on general principles to look the situation over...
...drums go bang, the cymbald clang, Cas is a father, he breaks one engagement and makes two, abducts his own child, and relaxes his Dr. Wassell expression to play nursemaid to his daughter in a cheap hotel room. As in all comedy everybody lives happily with a capital slap...
...Leisure. At West Point, football is the least important of Cas's activities. He takes ten subjects, required of every first classman (senior). He has the high honor and responsibilities of a cadet lieutenant. Like a third of his class (including four others from Army's starting line-up), he has crammed pilot training into an already crushing 16-hr. daily schedule...
...alternate afternoons, he is at ground school or in the air above West Point's Stewart Field. In good flying weather, this routine leaves less than three hours a week for football. Quiet, modest Cas Myslinski says he plays it for relaxation. Tall (5 ft. 11¾ in.), rugged (195 Ib.) and well-knit, he is older than most cadets. His roommate is the son of Joseph M. Patterson, New York Daily News publisher...