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...Beverly Hills, Calif., one chilly night, police picked up an unsteady partygoer who managed to identify himself as Captain James Allan Mollison, famed British aviator and husband of famed British Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison. Sobered, fined $10, Captain Mollison explained in court next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them...
...Davis (James Cagney) returns to the field to get his old job back. An irresponsible limb to whom blondes & brunettes mean the same thing, his escapades are matched only by the superintendent's reckless loyalty to him. Immediately Dizzy Davis sniffs suggestively at a luscious 19 -year-old aviatrix. To keep an engagement with her, he feigns a heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with best make-believe traditions the pal strikes fog, and, with radio out of commission, bashes through high tension wires, squashes a hangar, dies. After considerable high jinks, Davis...
...board their plane were three paying passengers - two bankers and famed German Aviatrix Thea Rasche. Turner reached Athens an hour after the Dutch entry, complained of a splitting headache. Speeding non-stop from England, the Mollisons leaped sensationally into first place when they swooped into Bagdad, first control point, hours ahead of the field. There Amy kept Irak officials waiting while she took a hot bath, her husband waiting while she made a little speech. Hardly had the dust of the departing Mollisons settled on the Bagdad field when in dropped a second British plane, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Charles...
...Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: I prophesy a great change in the transportation system. . . . Airlines will carry all first class passengers and first class mail. But don't believe too much what the old timers like me tell...
Miss Hepburn, the tenderly dominant daughter of the house in "A Bill of Divorcement" and the strangely masculine aviatrix of "Christopher Strong," has become something else again. It is much to her credit that she has not yet let Hollywood "type" her. The Hepburn of "Morning Glory" is an unsophisticated, stage-struck little girl from Vermont who comes to New York to become a famous actress--just like that. This doesn't sound like a very promising beginning; as a matter of fact it sounds like the start of half a dozen well-worn situations:--virginity adrift on Forty-Second...