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...Pupil: "President Roosevelt...
...Pupil: "President Roosevelt...
Joseph Szigeti's favorite game is listening to the radio, labeling compositions and performers. Sharp-eared, sharp-minded Szigeti has had some notable successes, as checkups proved, in identifying a player's background (a violinist was "a pupil of a pupil of Auer"), or guessing at a lady-pianist's love-life (none...
After 13 minutes of aimless chitchat by the actors, this unpleasant poser is finally planted on the drooping shoulders of Thomas Mitchell, a golden-hearted old college professor whose days are numbered by heart disease. Along come a former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose happy home has been upset by a prowling, pernicious femme fatale (Mona Maris). Mitchell tracks her down with such professorial precision, makes such painfully punctilious notes on her case that his conclusion that she is loaded with "greed, selfishness and brutality" will come as a surprise...
Quito schools were definitely progressive. In the copybook of one little boy, an honor pupil, Bemelmans saw a picture "like a Christmas card, with sunrays, little stars, scrolls, and illumination surrounding the words 'La Sifilis.' Equally beautiful and fetching was the next title, 'La Gonorrea.' This was done in green, with darts. The teacher explained that such instruction prevents shock later...