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Sued for Divorce. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham, tall, blonde "flying mother," onetime horse trainer in British Kenya, first woman to fly solo east-to-west across the Atlantic; by Film Producer Mansfield Markham; in London...
...Peoria, Ill., Rev. Dr. Beryl Gilbert Drake, an evangelist trained under Aimee Semple McPherson, runs Trinity Tabernacle, speaks over the radio, publishes a weekly paper for his devoted flock. As head of Trinity Tabernacle Corp. he is entitled under an Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering...
...Archbishop, who were appointed the official censors. Since they cannot be expected to rush to a projection room directly from the Coronation, and do their censorship at once, Gaumont British was on the point of abandoning last week its plans to have famed British Flyers Jim Mollison and Beryl Markham take off in separate planes with duplicate Coronation films in an effort to get these to the U. S. quickly...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
When the London Evening Standard ran a contest this autumn to discover a better name for Nova Pilbeam, some of the answers were Beryl Beamstar, Nova Cinemata, June, Dawn, and Marina Pilbeam. She decided to retain her own name, which she considers less whimsical than Myrna Loy or Greta Garbo. Her father is Arnold Pilbeam, for the last 15 years stage manager for the late Sir Nigel Playfair...