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...Mollison presented us with an assortment of effects, and tones, and poses which had no reference, as far as I could discover, to the part of Bolingbroke at any single point. I did not catch a glimpse of the character from one end of his performance to the other...Mr. Gillmore followed every sentence with a forced explosion of mirthless laughter, evidently believing that as Prince Hal was reputed to be a humorous character it was his business to laugh at him...Mr. Tree wants only one thing to make him an excellent Falstaff, and that is to get born...
...company's stock. The charges stunned Wall Street, involved a venerable banking house and brought the resignation of an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. The defendants in the case included Claude O. Stephens, the president of Texas Gulf; Charles F. Fogarty, the executive vice president; Richard D. Mollison, a vice president; two company geologists, Walter Holyk and Kenneth H. Darke; and a director, Thomas S. Lament, the former vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust...
Died. James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...
Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...
Before she took off, Atlantic Flyer Jim Mollison lent her his wrist watch, saying, "For God's sake, don't get it wet. Salt water would ruin the works." Author Markham kept the watch dry, but she cracked up in a Cape Breton bog. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eastwest. But even Author Markham could not fly the Atlantic every...