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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest scene in The Prince and the Pauper is naturally the Coronation, for which Warners used their big new Stage 22, too ft. longer than the lot's ordinary 40-ft. stages; a small army of extras, the St. Luke's Choir and six technical advisers. In this scene Tom Canty, already prayed over, sworn and anointed, is about to get the crown when Prince Edward comes scampering up Westminster Abbey's central aisle to present his claims. When Tom Canty corroborates them, the Archbishop of Canterbury agrees to crown Edward if he can tell the whereabouts...
...Long-limbed, leathery Helen Stephens of Fulton, Mo.: all three of the events she entered in the women's national track & field championships (200-metre run, 50-metre dash, and shot-put, with a women's indoor record of 44 ft., 1½-in.); at St. Louis...
...present 190 scheduled airline stops. Within a year the new four-motored transports scheduled for U. S. airways will need far more room for landing and taking off than do present planes. The Bureau plans to set up three airport classifications-super-terminals with runways of 4,000 ft. in four directions, plus two miles of clear approaches; terminals with 3,500-ft. runways; limited terminals with 2,200-ft. runways. This means that such important stops as New ark, Detroit, Washington, Chicago, Kan sas City, St. Louis and Portland,. Ore. would be "limited" ports unless greatly improved...
...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...
Last week Clem Sohn was in Vincennes, France, to do his specialty for 100,000 spectators at an air circus. While the crowd howled with delight, Sohn stepped from his Farman at 10,000 ft., pirouetted toward the ground at 2,000 ft. per minute...