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First woman passenger ever to fly in an airplane was Edith Ogilvy Druce. (Date: Oct. 7, 1908. Place: Le Mans, France. Machine: a bamboo and piano-wire biplane. Position: seated in front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high...
...device of building crescendo by the steady growth of suspense, so they introduced shrieks, hysterics, faints, shots in the dark. The result is a conventional thriller which Stevenson, were he in the habit of haunting Broadway, would never recognize. The cast is competent enough, especially Gavin Muir, Hubert Druce and Marie Adels, but the general result is more mysterious than was intended...
...improved upon by the present generation of actors. Two members of the cast as originally played in New York were missing, Mr. Louis Calvert, whose voice so suggested the power of Andrew Undershaft, and Mr. Conway Tearle, the immortal Bill Walker, both having gone onto other boards. Mr. Herbert Druce, who played the elder Undershaft, is by no means mediocre, but there is a tinge of great power in the munitions-maker which at times he missed. Mr. Lewis Edgar was a good Bill Walker. A certain nervousness and rushing, however, clouded his part in a few places...
...undergraduates of the University who are not members of the Regiment, to march with the Navy League delegation in the Preparedness Parade on Saturday morning. All undergraduates who wish to take advantage of this opportunity to march in the parade should send their names to Mr. Cummings at 36 Druce street, Brookline...
...stage, and he made his first appearance in 1874 as Chastelard in "Mary Stuart" at the Princess Theatre. In the same year he made an early start in Shakesperian drama as Fenton in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." Soon came a notable event, the production of "Dan't Druce," in which the young actor made a pronounced success in his love scenes with Miss Marion Terry. He showed an easy grip of character in "Duty," and in 1879 he played Sir Horace Welby in "Forget-Me-Not," with Miss Genevieve Ward, in a trying part acted with great finesse...