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...Again, Hawks. By moonlight, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's red-&-white Travel Air Texaco 13 whizzed off the runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
Last week it was 110° in the wheat fields of Kansas and Iowa. Politically it was even hotter as wheat prices slumped to the lowest level in 17 years, 60¢ per bu. locally, 86¢ at Chicago. To escape a brassy sun harvesters worked by moonlight. By day, horses heaved and died by the score. The grain turned white, the ground cracked open. But the threat of a burned crop and reduced production was not sufficient to revive wilting prices...
Birthday. Daniel Carter (Dan) Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace...
When The Return of the Hero was published in 1923 under the pseudonym "Michael Ireland," curious readers wondered who the author was, decided it must be James Stephens (The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight). Such flattery persuaded the late Darrell Figgis to reveal his identity. A Sinn Féiner, he used to run guns into Ireland from Germany for the Irish Volunteers, was arrested in 1916 following the Dublin insurrection, became a member of the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Parliament). The year after The Return of the Hero was published, his wife shot herself...
...which he made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover. The photography and recording are good, but not the adaptation : Redemption might have been told with more continuity if less time had been wasted on photographic atmosphere. Typical shot: Gilbert jumping up against a garden wall in the moonlight to caress the hand of the heroine...