Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou left Hollywood for France, his somewhat abrupt disappearance from the top flight of film stars was attributed to his inability to make sound pictures. But others said that he had left because his ideas about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice...
...Orbit business was bought by William Wrigley Jr., who continues to distribute it through the Easterwood agency. Touring Europe this summer with his wife, rich Col. Easterwood, publicity-loving, met Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte, offered them $25,000 if they would continue their Paris-New York flight to Dallas. According to one account, Col. Easterwood gave $75,000 to finance the entire trans-Atlantic flight, one-third of the sum to be given the flyers clear...
Down and into Dallas's Love field, busiest airport of the southwest, slipped Coste's red sesquiplane "Point d'lnterrogation" last week at the end of a 1,700-mi. flight from New York. The mob of 20,000 rushed the lines of police and national guardsmen with as much mad enthusiasm as though the plane had flown direct from Paris. At length a wedge of guards forced a lane to the Southern Air Transport administration building where Mayor J. Waddy Tate and Attorney Cullen F. Thomas (for Governor Moody) offered the visitors the freedom of Dallas...
Taken to the Adolphus Hotel (owned by Adolphus Busch, grandson of the famed brewer) Capt. Coste mingled tact with candor in writing of his cross-country flight for the New York Times: "It was not hard-pouf, pouf, it was nothing at all! . . . I do not think anyone ever made $25,000 more easily. . . . The reception we received here was marvelous! Never has anyone so generously . . . greeted us, not even in New York. . . . I wish to give thanks to these Dallas people-'tres gentil...
...Flight. The unprecedented precautions taken by Coste & Bellonte brought their reward. Although heavy fog beset the Question Mark along the French coast and also off Newfoundland, weather conditions on the whole were more advantageous for flight than any time earlier in the year, or since their arrival in the U. S. By a somewhat circuitous route most of the bad spots were avoided until near Newfoundland when fog forced the flyers to climb to 3,000 ft. Their closest call Capt. Coste described in the New York Times. Hugging the coast of Nova Scotia so as not to lose sight...