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An Interview in the Air
Five thousand tect up, aviator Cecil de Mille philosophizes at seventy miles an hour on God, the future life and womanly virtue.
By
Elizabeth Peltret
as a strict Presbyterian, nutwitbstanding his father's constant connection with the theater.) "As a boy, I pictured Him as a sort of glorified man sitting on a throne in the clouds, pointing out individuals with a golden scepter saying, 'Punish this man, and reward that one.' Now, 1 do not picture Him at all. I think, though, that He builds forever. I cannot believe that we are put here for fifty or sixty years and that after that there is nothing. H a man has a strong personality I do not see why it should not endure after death, but where and in what form it endures I am willing to wait to find out."
It will be remembered that C. B. de Mille is the author of "The Return of Peter Grimm," a most realistic and sincere play on the subject of spiritualism. It was a Warfield vehicle. (Continued on page 12-;)
a keen a seiue of humor as my O'WB. and : oaec more the motor roared, and we rose.'
He directs in a low. even tone of and will not permit the least .-acting conversation. His peoare plastic material with ich he can do anything, and he requires of them that have decided individualities of their own.
"One thing I will not have," he said once, "is a lot of little imitation Cecil B. de Milles running around."
But to return to the air and my interview:
Mr. de Mille turned, sev1 times, banking at only a t angle, making as he said 'an easy figure eight," and !'Xiking over the tilted edge of the wing I was treated to the unusual sp>ectacle of being able K to see equally well on both ^B sides of a mountain at once
^B long rolling country on
^»cach side, with little houses — a
H mile below us — scattered arounc:
K, intervals. We were flying due west
B^but the sun appeared to be below us.
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Peltret f«yt
that after her
philoiophic ride
thruu|(h the cloudi
a inutor trip to the
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dangerou* in comparison.
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