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That is why this year's Harvard-Yale classic may not seem, to the sparse gathering at the Bowl tomorrow, as spectacular or all-important an event as it has in the past. Whether Howie Odell, one-time pupil of Dick Harlow, can teach his former mentor a few tricks or not pales before the thought of what will be done by these same Crimson and Eli athletes a few months hence...
...Realism. His ideal was to show everything on the stage, to leave nothing to the imagination. His disciple was David Belasco, who gave tremendous impetus to the movement and at one time put a complete Child's restaurant on the stage. Belasco in turn handed it on to his pupil who taught it to the motion pictures. This man is still with us, and when last seen was engaged in giving the American public a whole wrecked ship under water, complete with octopus. He is Cecil B. deMille...
Arthur Murray, the Tiffany and Sears, Roebuck of U.S. dance, has almost every kind of pupil in his nationwide chain of 146 dance schools. But the trade of socialites is fast being augmented by the trade of new-rich war workers, who have long listened to the juke-box hit "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry...
...students who throng the art department's corridors (many from the North and Middle West) come to sign up for his classes in drawing, painting, art appreciation. Thirty-five or 40 are admitted to Instructor Woodruff's advanced painting classes, may hope to follow many another Woodruff pupil (like Lithographer Wilmer Jennings, Landscapist Albert Wells) to awards in nationwide art exhibitions or to jobs teaching art in Negro schools...
...Prize pupil was tall, lean, handsome Benjamin O. Davis Jr., first Negro ever accorded the traditional "recognition" by upperclassmen at the end of his plebe year at West Point. (His father, a Brigadier General, is an assistant to the Army's Inspector General.) Tuskegee's Negroes were as proud as all get-out when young Davis won his wings...