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...sense of loss. Out of vengeance or whim she has carried on an affair with Annie's fiance. Callously neglected by her late husband, Ruth fervently argues that loyalty and fidelity are above price. Only Aunt Helen has shared untarnished love in a lesbian idyl with an aviatrix now long dead. It is an odd angle of vision that per mits Playwright Babe to present this as the sole satisfactory relationship...
DIED. Ruth Elder, 73, aviatrix who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic; of emphysema; in San Francisco. After Elder took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, her plane, The American Girl, splashed down near the Azores, where the pilot and copilot were rescued by a tanker. The failed flight, however, turned into a launch for a lucrative film career...
...landing was safely effected, and the brave (and profane) aviatrix was lifted half frozen from the framework seat in the front of her flying machine. She was dressed in a fur-lined leather suit and helmet and wore fur-lined gauntlets...
Died. Ruth Law Oliver, 83, pioneer aviatrix, the first woman to loop the loop in a plane, the holder of numerous speed and distance records, notably with her 680-mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, N.Y., and star of Ruth Law's Flying Circus in the early 1920s; in San Francisco...
...Farman Pusher biplane and $20,000 for the Fokker D-VII, both slated for exhibition in a future air museum in New Jersey. But such, at least, was not the case with one beat-up, prop-less oldtimer, listed as the "Travelair Mystery Ship." "Mystery ship, hell!" snorted Oldtime Aviatrix Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes. "I bought this ship in 1930 and flew it to two women's world speed records." When she made the winning bid of $4,300 for her old plane, which had been in Mantz's collection, the crowd stood and applauded. Pancho Barnes...