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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even if you are one of those for whom the words "every character speaks" constitute an advertisement, "The Dummy", feature picture at the Metropolitan this week, will probably be pretty tiresome for you. It opens up the practically untouched field of child kidnapping. The estranged parents are brought together when little Mickey Bennett rescues their fair-haired daughter, letting himself be kidnapped as the deaf and dumb son of a millionaire...
...this script showing how naval aviators are made-Annapolis, then round-the-world cruise, then training school at Pensacola. Anita Page falls from an aquaplane into the plot. This air-photography is good, but Wings was better. The final sequence, in which one pilot dives at another on the field and afterwards rescues him when his plane falls into the Pacific, is about as true to life as a recruiting poster. The sallow aviator is Ramon Novarro...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
...beginning of this week Newark's municipal airport became the official air mail depot for New York City and nearby points. Hadley Field had been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton...
Then there was trouble of landing N. A. T.'s large Douglas mail transports on Newark's at present narrow runways. Pitcairn agreed to use its small mail planes on a shuttle service between Newark and Hadley Field, shortest air mail service in the world...