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...unfortunately a lack of spirit left some of the hilarious possibilities of Shakespeare's comedy untouched. The whole business was carried off well enough, but the joie de vivre necessary for the superlative was lacking. This discrepancy was in all probability owing to the slightly flat antics of Walter Kingsford as Sir Toby Beich and Arthur Hohl's Sir Andrew Aguecheek. For some reason or another they failed to make their foolery convincing...
Wing Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, who in June flew the Southern Cross from Ireland to the U. S., underwent an appendectomy at Middelburg, Holland. He is convalescing at the home of his good friend Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon at Verre...
Journey's End. In Santa Maria, Calif, last week, Major Charles Kingsford-Smith presented his world-girdling monoplane Southern Cross to Capt. G. Allan Hancock, wealthy banker and oil operator, who had bought and loaned the plane to him for the California-Australia flight of 1928. When the Southern Cross landed safely in Australia, Capt. Hancock cabled Major Kingsford-Smith full title to it. Capt. Hancock, who took up flying as a result of his association with the Southern Cross crew, later gave Santa Maria an airport, established there an air college...
Glorious Failure. The four men in the Southern Cross strained eyes and ears. Surely they should have sighted Cape Race by this time. Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant...
Southern Crossers Flayed. Two men died this spring hunting to rescue Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm and their crew of the Southern Cross "lost" in wild Australia. The flyers, who guided the Southern Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were...