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Mitchell's Pupil. When Billy Mitchell died, the air-power revolution lost its one great leader. There were plenty of airmen who agreed with him, and most of them were in the Army Air Corps. But there was none so gifted with the combination of impressive rank, burning partisan zeal and disregard of military convention as the man who had written: "The day has passed when armies on the ground or navies on the sea can be the arbiters of a nation's destiny...
...country boy Fonda, however, because its impoverished head (Don Ameche) has selected him as the nationwide winner of a contest for the man least likely to succeed. The prize is $500 cash and a course at the Institute. Fonda wants the cash only; Ameche has to make his unwilling pupil a success...
...Dave Belasco, who was responsible for most of the platitude and superficiality that haunts the American theatre to this day, had a very apt pupil in Cecil B. DeMille. The satellite moved to Hollywood to prove that any extravaganza the master had put over on the stage could be made twice as gaudy and twice as profitable on the screen. DeMille succeeded--time and again--and his latest nightmare, mercilessly entitled "Reap the Wild Wind," is now in its second week...
...spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation, obviously not very exciting, is not helped by numerous inconsistencies in the writing. Parts of it are excellent, particularly those between the teacher and her pupil, and the scene where the serving girl attempts to seduce the student. But at other times incongruous notes enter in. For example, it is hard to believe that the miner could have written the section of prose poetry which first brought him to the notice of his teacher. At other times there is a strange...
...Young men who leave college in almost every case do not come back after the war. You can imagine how it would look to them after the reality they have been through. I should not want any soldier for a pupil. We might not agree," Copey commented with a thin smile...