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...plot is manifold. Its principal current centers about the life and emotions of a sensitive, but in the main, ordinary man, with the life of a sample -- an ineffectual sample -- of humanity. Subsidiary to the development of this idea are three minor threads: a choral rendition of the epic of the Argonauts, obviously designed to emphasize the ultimate continuity of the chief functions of life: a train of satirically treated episodes of everyday life, and the intermittent presentation of personifications of those influences which have played a major part in forming the character of the hero. This...
...created a new title, "Hero of the Soviet Union," and made them all Heroes. To the 102 who had been rescued he awarded the Order of the Red Star and half a year's pay. Then he ordered a monument in Moscow to immortalize the great Soviet epic...
...humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation of Don Quixote, Dillinger and Napoleon, wrhose more serious misdemeanors, like robbery, arson, lechery and wholesale slaughter of prisoners...
...epic portion of Viva Villa arrives when Sykes, the U. S. newspaperman, arrives to tell Villa that Pascal, whom Villa hates, has killed little Madero, whom Villa loves. Villa borrows $7 from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing...
GILGAMESH - William Ellery Leonard - Viking ($2). Free-verse rendition of the oldest written epic (c. 2,000 B.C.) by the University of Wisconsin's famed eccentric poet-professor...