Contact! Spin 'em around! Contact! Leaving the ground!

Chapter One of Ace Drummond opens with the photograph of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, ``America's Beloved Ace of Ace, The Inspiration Of Youthful Airmen The World Over'', and the title in that crescent-based Chinese Restaurant font reading, ``Chapter One: When East Meets West''.

( With all the background to be laid down, Ace Drummond actually doesn't pop in until ten minutes in. But he makes an indelible impression when he does get there. Cut partly for length and partly for spoiler protection. If you want you can see the whole serial in archive.org; I'm limiting myself to how much Turner Classic Movies shows.  )

The ``Next Week'' card here shows a model of a Chinese dragon moving around and spitting flame under the title of next week's episode, and the proclamation ``The Dragon commands!'' There's not exactly a direction given on the card --- just, that next week at this theater is Chapter Two, `The Invisible Enemy' --- but it's still cute. I might start randomly following statements of fact with ``The Dragon Commands!''

Trivia: The act to set up a colonial entrepot in Darien was passed by the Scotland's Parliament on 26 June 1695. Source: History of Money, Glyn Davies.

Currently Reading: ``The Good War'', Studs Terkel.